Quotes About Chamberlain

Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

Neville Chamberlain, the only British prime minister until Margaret Thatcher to have had a university education in science and the only university-educated twentieth-century prime minister to have studied entirely outside Oxbridge.

In their second conversation Henderson argued that it was proof of Chamberlain's good intentions that he still refused to take Churchill into his cabinet: the anti-German faction was not representative of the British public – it was mainly Jews and anti-Nazis, said Henderson. Henderson later told the Italian ambassador that his talk with Hitler had been 'absolutely unfavourable': the Führer seemed dead set on war – even a general war.

Did I ever tell you about Chamberlain? Chamberlain was the most unbelievable physical specimen ever. There wasn't anything he couldn't do on the basketball court. One year he scored fifty points a game. Another year he led the league in assists. He was so strong it was frightening. But there was one thing he couldn't do. He couldn't beat us.

Chamberlain moved again to concession. "Appeasement" was at that time a popular and not a pejorative word.

The riddle that was making the rounds was: "What is the difference between Hitler and Chamberlain? Answer: Chamberlain takes his weekend in the country. Hitler takes his country in the weekend.

Roosevelt knew better than to suggest that Chamberlain criticize or call into question "the present German policy of racial persecution." All he asked was that he try to negotiate an agreement that would permit Jewish refugees who wanted to leave Germany "to take with them a reasonable percentage of their property. 

Without having planned it—and without any official sanction—Chamberlain suddenly gave the order for Union soldiers to "carry arms" as a sign of their deepest mark of military respect. A bugle call instantly rang out. All along the road, Union soldiers raised their muskets to their shoulders, the salute of honor.

Goaltending was brought in because of Mikan and Chamberlain. So rules do change for specific players, in concert with a need to stay up to date on how coaches are taking advantage of the rules.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it

Ben sat numbly on the sofa at first, then walked into the kitchen

Elliott, Marvin L. "Miracle of Hickory: Mass Media and the 'Miracle'." (2007), North Dakota State University.

I nod. It's the gentle class with the other septuagenarians, but I don't mention that.

Chamberlain, borrowing words used by Oliver Cromwell in 1653: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!

Historians have determined that had Chamberlain not charged that day, the rebels would have won at Gettysburg.

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Summer passed; delirious crowds cheered Neville Chamberlain's return from Munich;

Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.

Wilt Chamberlain, by far, is my best basketball player. Best athlete ever.

You will probably be hearing more about this schoolboy. His name is Wilt Chamberlain.

Chamberlain was acting on the same assumption that we all follow in our efforts to make sense of strangers. We believe that the information gathered from a personal interaction is uniquely valuable.

Chamberlain was the only Allied leader of that period to spend any significant time with Hitler.