#destroyer

We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers. ↗

— Barney Ross

#eight #enterprise #force #gilbert #got

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. ↗

— Barney Ross

#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#am #become #destroyer #i #i am

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. ↗

— Plutarch

#benefits #destroyer #donations #liberties #people

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#college #college education #complex #destroyers #education

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #around #bay #beach #became

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#because #between #child #destroyer #greatest

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#building #category #destroyers #drags #human

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers. ↗

— Barney Ross

#am #attacked #awfully #because #carriers

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#destroyer #ever #film #mediterranean #seen