Paul Tibbets famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.
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I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.
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I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.
-- Paul Tibbets
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
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I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I'm in the airport I'm buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane.
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She flew like a bird, only faster.
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To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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