Martin Caidin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.
-- Martin Caidin

#Legs #Aviation #Wheelbarrows
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.
-- Martin Caidin

#War #Decision #Suffering
You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet.
-- Martin Caidin

#Men #Aerospace #Medicine
Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.
-- Martin Caidin

#Children #Pain #Fall
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. â€œNot even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.
-- Martin Caidin

#War #Blow #People
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.
-- Martin Caidin

#Running #Parent #Legs
What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.
-- Martin Caidin

#Book #Believe #Years

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.
We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.
I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.
If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

Martin Caidin famous quotes

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