Small Arms Protective

Famous quotes containing the words small, arms and/or protective:

    “And a sigh heaves from all the small things on earth,
    The books, the papers, the old garters and union-suit buttons
    Kept in a white cardboard box somewhere ...
    The summer demands and takes away too much,
    But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)