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Quotes About Invasion

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.
~ Gillian Flynn
The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist.
~ Gordan Korman
You're like crabgrass! Every time I turn around, you're on another part of the lawn!
~ Gordon Korman
Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all. We honor no treaties. We spurn international courts. We strike unilaterally wherever we choose. We give orders to the United Nations but do not pay our dues. We complain of terrorism, yet our empire is now the greatest terrorist of all. We bomb, invade, subvert other states.
~ Gore Vidal
I looked in depth into the ancient and 100 per cent Indian origins of Vedic civilisation in my book Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age. There was no such thing as an Aryan invasion of India. That whole racist idea is completely bust.
~ Graham Hancock
It was responsible for the interlopers who plagued their lands. It
~ Greg Rucka
I'm an American, remember? I'm used to my government spying on me.
~ Gregg Loomis
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
~ Robert Fisk
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
~ Steven Spielberg
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.
~ Horst Koehler
The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
~ Douglas Brinkley
The whole issue of Iraq has left us with a legacy, which is not good. The ripple effect from that initial invasion is continually being felt in worldwide institutions, in the U.S. and the U.K.
~ Katharine Gun
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
~ Graydon Carter
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~ Justin Timberlake
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
~ Marcia Gay Harden
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
~ Jesse Ventura
It's a very strange situation to be in when you have pictures of you topless everywhere and people thrusting them in your face all time.
~ Elliot Knight
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system has been a nonstop torrent of TV specials. So if you're one of the many who believe the aliens are here, you really do have to admit this: They're the best houseguests ever.
~ Seth Shostak
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
~ Judd Gregg
This amply shows Cromwell's frame of mind before leaving for Ireland. His fear was that the young Charles, who had been declared king in Scotland immediately after his father's death, would land in Ireland, rally the people to the royalist cause and lead an invasion to England. In the summer of 1649 it seemed to Cromwell that Ireland had become a royalist state and the prospects of a successful English invasion of that country were receding with every passing day.
~ Sean O'Callaghan
History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time.
~ Senator John Kerry
The sixteenth-century scholar, O'Flaherty, fixes the Milesian invasion of Ireland at about 1000 B. C. — the time of Solomon.
~ Seumas MacManus
The Irish Race of to-day is popularly known as the Milesian Race, because the genuine Irish (Celtic) people were supposed to be descended from Milesius of Spain, whose sons, say the legendary accounts, invaded and possessed themselves of Ireland a thousand years before Christ.[1] But
~ Seumas MacManus
But the possession of the country was wrested from the Firbolgs, and they were forced into partial serfdom by the Tuatha De Danann (people of the goddess Dana), who arrived later. Totally
~ Seumas MacManus