Frank Wead famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns.
-- Frank Wead

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You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.
-- Frank Wead

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Listen, sister. I don't dance and I can't take time out now to learn.
-- Frank Wead

#Sister #Dance #War
Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.
-- Frank Wead

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The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalitÃ©s perdra toute son acuitÃ© le jour oÃ¹ n'existera plus la tendance inique Ã l'oppression et Ã la domination, ni le perpÃ©tuel danger des menaÃ§ants prÃ©paratifs de guerre.:;Â», Fr.
America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

Frank Wead famous quotes

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