#carriers

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#anyone #baseball #cap #carriers #drivers

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#calmness #carriers #eternal #even #heavenly

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#competition #could #demanded #get #higher

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. ↗

— Jack Adams

#alerted #american #attacks #carriers #damaging

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#carriers #command #difficulty #duty #expedition

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ideas #like #meaning #meaning of #mere

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor. ↗

— Barney Ross

#fortunate #harbor #very #were #weren

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular. ↗

— David Neeleman

#become #carriers #continuing #i #more

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. ↗