Quotes About Invasion

Influenza causes pneumonia either directly, by a massive viral invasion of the lungs, or indirectly—and more commonly—by destroying certain parts of the body's defenses and allowing so-called secondary invaders, bacteria, to infest the lungs virtually unopposed.

The 'heathen men' who attacked Lindisfarne in the summer of 793 are better known today as the vikings,

But the assault on Lindisfarne was a seismic moment that sent shockwaves right across Europe.

people were once again becoming alarmed at the sight of viking sails.

Britains [sic], up to now afflicted by various disasters and vicissitudes, were widely reduced to the rule of the Saxons.

England had been conquered by the Vikings, and its ancient royal family were in exile – in Normandy.

but the vikings who targeted Kent and Hampshire are likely to have come directly from Scandinavia

In 844 they sailed up the River Garonne, one of the great arteries of Francia,

Alfred responded to the invasion by summoning an army

Then, in the summer of 991, a much larger force arrived from Scandinavia.

before the earliest Saxon settlers had arrived.

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

In 686 Cædwalla invaded the Isle of Wight,

life in Britain before the arrival of the Romans was not necessarily any nicer,

The king of Wight, Arwald, appears to have been killed in the course of the invasion,

The light was going out. The country was being invaded by people of inferior cultures and inferior races. The real, vital, white America was being submerged.

Which reminds me that you'll be searched on both ends of your journey, on both ends of your body. Sorry, that was a nonnegotiable." Nadashe shrugged. "I was groped worse in college." "I don't know what to do with that information.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

No less than my grandmother, she dreaded these invasions of strangers, and, in her fear of being too late to escape if she let herself be seen, would fly from the room with a rapidity which always made my father and me laugh at her.

I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?