quotes about Canaries

“I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but not credit. Or life insurance.” Abraham sounded amused. “You are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.”

“We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.”

“My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.”

“True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.”

“I always tell people that my music should speak to them... and that they shouldn't feel obligated to say why or how. All reactions are valid; the important thing is to have the experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.”

“Raise boys and girls the same way.”

“A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.”

Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.43, Hachette UK

“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”

Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.

“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows...”