Maynard Owen Williams Quotes

• Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Grieving, Boots, Fortune

  Letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, 1948.

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• The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Boys, Steel, Looks

  The National Geographic, August 1926.

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• When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Air

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• Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Children, Army, Night

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• If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Rare Beauty, Views, Valleys

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