"The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping."

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Source : Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

Douglas Bader

#Holiday Quotes #Sea Quotes #Dover Quotes

“Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.”
“... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.”
“When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books
“Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.”
“I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.”
“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
“I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.”
“I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.”

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