Barney Ross famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
-- Barney Ross
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
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Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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I cant wait until Im able to afford really posh bags.
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