Artillery Quotes

“A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

“I’m young, strong, healthy meat for the “little conflict” that got out of hand.”
― Michael Zboray, Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“Avventurose età e benedette quelle che non seppero la spaventevole furia di queste indemoniate macchine dell'artiglieria, l'inventore delle quali io ritengo che sia nell'inferno a ricevere il guiderdone del suo diabolico ritrovato, per mezzo del quale fece sì che un ignobile e codardo braccio possa toglier la vita a un prode cavaliere.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Spike, rake, sponge, charge, wad, shot, wad – the gun crews worked like automatons. There was something extraordinary in the way that every man performed his motions as a part of the action. Every movement was synchronised with the next. They were a perfect machine – each one a piece of the mechanism, like the wheels of the watch in his pocket. He could think of no other example of men working together with such precision. This was man, industry and science in unison. Was this the way of the future? It was a wondrous and near-perfect thing. But it was a perfection bent on destruction.”
― Charles Cordell, God's Vindictive Wrath

“Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Live Echoes

“It is curious that when you are watching artillery-fire from a distance you always want the gunner to hit his mark, even though the mark contains your dinner and some of your comrades.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“The battle between your current state and your desired state cannot be won without a powerful weapon called CHOICE. Your choice determines you.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“The mountain won’t be destroyed by the artillery.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Warfare has changed, no doubt. The king and queen of battle are no longer the artillery and infantry. Now surprise is king, and speed is queen.”
― George S. Midla "From Love to War"