Martin Caidin quotes

Martin Caidin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.”
-- Martin Caidin

#Legs Quotes #Aviation Quotes #Wheelbarrows Quotes
“The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.”
-- Martin Caidin

#War Quotes #Decision Quotes #Suffering Quotes
“You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet.”
-- Martin Caidin

Source : Martin Caidin, Grace Caidin (1962). “Aviation and Space Medicine: Man Conquers the Vertical Frontier”

#Men Quotes #Aerospace Quotes #Medicine Quotes
“Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.”
-- Martin Caidin

#Children Quotes #Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes
“Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. â€œNot even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.”
-- Martin Caidin

#War Quotes #Blow Quotes #People Quotes
“The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.”
-- Martin Caidin

#Running Quotes #Parent Quotes #Legs Quotes
“What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.”
-- Martin Caidin

#Book Quotes #Believe Quotes #Years Quotes

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