Air Quotes

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

Freedom under law is like the air we breathe. It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

There is no perfect gift without great suffering. Our triumphs and our pomps pass away; gluttony and sloth and enervating luxury have banished every virtue from the world; so that as it were wandering from its course our nature is subdued by habit. Now and henceforth it is meet that you cure yourself of laziness. The Master has said that sitting on down or lying under the quilts will not bring thee to fame. He who without it has frittered life away leaves no more trace of himself upon the earth than smoke does in the air or the foam on the water.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is proved to be true, because the boundary of a thing is a surface, which is not part of the body contained within that surface; nor is it part of the air surrounding that body, but is the medium interposted between the air and the body, as is proved in its place.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.