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Quotes About Rear

The fighter's winged-scarab fuselage described a tight Immelmann that brought it squarely into the last target's rear aspect.
~ James Swallow
The glory of God is our rear guard.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Agh-uhh!" the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn't completely cover his multicolored rear.
~ Rick Riordan
I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige
~ Kelley Armstrong
As the historians Jung Chang and Jon Halliday point out, "It was having China as a secure rear and supply depot that made it possible for the Vietnamese to fight twenty-five years and beat first the French and then the Americans.
~ Xiaobing Li
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
~ Bill Alexander
R shook his head, scratched it. From the rear his head looks like it has a little square suitcase attached to it. (It reminds me of an old painting called "In the Carriage".) ... I looked at that tightly locked little suitcase of his and wondered, "What thoughts are turning over now in that case?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
~ zedong mao ii
Nor was my squad troubled by racial or religious bigotry. We had no "inner conflict," as the phrase goes. These things happen most often in the imagination of men who never fought. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.
~ Robert Leckie
Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.
~ Robert Leckie
A soldier knows that a satisfactory observation point provides an unobstructed view to the front and adequate security to the flanks and the rear. He knows it provides protection from the elements and concealment of the observers. He knows it offers a reasonable likelihood of undisturbed occupation for the full duration of the operation.
~ Lee Child
front. Then the leader swung the truck's right rear door shut. Last
~ Lee Child
She was sitting on her own long blonde hair, which Susannah had noted came to just under her rear, cupping it in a provocative way.
~ Leigh Riker
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
~ Larry Miller
A dynastic alliance with Epiros would neutralise a potential threat to his rear while he was away campaigning in Asia.
~ Roderick Beaton
if the Persian fleet was left intact to sail round and take the infantrymen from the rear.
~ Roderick Beaton
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
~ Assyrian Proverb
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
~ H. G. Wells
We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.
~ Arthur Frank Burns
At the Louvre she immediately recognized the Venus de Milo, even though they happened to approach from the rear, and of course the Mona Lisa was unmistakable; it looked exactly like the reproductions.
~ Evan S. Connell
There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
~ James Garner
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
~ Frank Moore Colby
The most frills-free airliner cannot compare with the rear of a C-130. No soundproofing, no heating, no pressurization and certainly no trolley service. The Tracker knew it would never get quieter but it would become savagely cold as the air thinned. Nor is the rear leak-proof. Despite the oxygen-delivering mask on his face, the place by now stank of kerosene and oil.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys
~ Herman Melville