rockets Quotes

“Everyone’s equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket.”

“A screaming comes across the sky.”

“A Rocket-cartel. A structure cutting across every agency human and paper that ever touched it.”

“If you lived today as if it were your last, you’d buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn’t you?”

“The old Eskimos were scientists too. By using the plants, animals, and temperature, they had changed the harsh Arctic into a home, a feat as incredible as sending rockets to the moon. […] They had been wise. They had adjusted to nature instead of to man-made gadgets.”

“They sparkled like diamonds and gumdrops and gold! Like silk! Like spaghetti! Like satin! Like lace! They burst out like rockets all over the place! They waved in the air and they swished in the breeze! And some were as long as the branches of trees.”

“Against the black sky climbed a brilliant, flaming rocket. It was a ship’s danger flare. Little Toot looked hard and saw a ship jammed between two huge rocks. It was an ocean liner his father had towed many times down the river.”