Evacuation Quotes

• 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.

  Douglas Bader

  Holiday, Sea, Dover

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

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• We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

  Winston Churchill

  War, Victory, World

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wars are not won by evacuations.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, War, Don't Give Up

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.

  Nina Hagen

  Mother, Jesus, Sky

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• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Japan, Middle East

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Revenge, Anger, Fighting

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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• The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Army, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.331, Рипол Классик

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• If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

  David Catania

  Reality, Elderly, Giving

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• Clearly we're in historic times here. We have - one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River is a river called the Merrimack. And the crest areas there - they're going to be a number of feet, 2, 3, 4, over what they were in '93 or '82. And on the Mississippi River itself, down below St. Louis, we're still projecting a couple of feet over that historic number. So the bottom line is there's a significant amount of water that's causing evacuations and challenges throughout that whole area.

  Jay Nixon

  Couple, Rivers, Feet

  "Flood Conditions To Worsen In Missouri". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

  Russel Honore

  Country, Waiting, Political

  "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.

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• To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East has become another possible solution. Although both courses of action emigration and evacuation, must, of course, be considered as nothing more than temporary expedients, they do help to provide practical experience which should be of great importance in view of the coming Endlösung (Final Solution) of the Jewish question.

  Reinhard Heydrich

  Views, Emigration, Approval

  Speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, on January 20, 1942. "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution". Book by A. J. Mayer, p. 304, 1990.

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• We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Office, Premature

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• During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was effectively closed. The military situation in the area deteriorated rapidly. I therefore ordered the evacuation of all American personnel remaining in South Vietnam.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Monday, Military, War

  Ford, Gerald R. (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1975”, p.605, Best Books on

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• Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

  Mary Roach

  Airplane, Secret, Survival

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

  John Hodgman

  Sight, Doe, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

  Storm Jameson

  Disease, Violence, Novelists

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.112, A&C Black

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• As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

  Norm MacDonald

  Passion, Heart, Agony

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• I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

  Bono

  Movie, Running, Children

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