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Quotes About Supplies

The myth of violated innocence meant that the rebel stockpiling of war supplies in recent months must remain obscure, along with details about the colony's deft, robust call to arms. A narrative congealed, and with it a brilliant propaganda stratagem: Gage was the aggressor; redcoats fired first; helpless civilians had been slaughtered.
~ Rick Atkinson
And into the holds went: a platoon of carrier pigeons, six flyswatters and sixty rolls of fly-paper for each 1,000 soldiers, plus five pounds of rat poison per company.
~ Rick Atkinson
engravers, printers, binders, and similar technicians who are not necessarily involved exclusively in bookmaking. Manufacturers have to be supplied, and that means the people who make type, ink,
~ Robert A. Carter
including wagons, camp equipage, arms, ammunition, donkeys, buffaloes,
~ Robert A. Carter
We have journals in social studies, too. The school must have gotten a good price on journals.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
~ Adam Smith
She bought cleaning supplies and groceries at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, itself a revelation to her: so many kinds of food, so many different brands!
~ Alan Brennert
I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.
~ John C. Calhoun
For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
~ Miriam Makeba
One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.
~ Heinrich Himmler
We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.
~ David Milne
D'you mind?' asked Satchwell, as they drew level with Picturesque Art Supplies, and without waiting for an answer he led her into the shop where, as he selected brushes and oils, he talked with airy self-importance of modern trends
~ Robert Galbraith
To supply Fourth Army's basic needs it was estimated that 31 trains must reach the front every day, bringing the day-to-day supplies as well as massive amounts of ammunition, food, water and trench stores that must be gathered for the main offensive. More than 3,000,000 shells were stockpiled close to the artillery batteries, ready to open the bombardment on 24 June.
~ Robin Neillands
When I arrived, he was in the kitchen, in the middle of his Sunday morning ritual of cleaning his cleaning supplies.
~ Lee Goldberg
medical supplies?
~ Leigh Greenwood
kibble, coffee and a few other staples, and headed
~ Linda Lael Miller
The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious." Back
~ Aldous Huxley
I accessed one of the emergency supplies of nanites I had hidden, thanking God that I had taken this precaution
~ Douglas E. Richards
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
~ Quintilian
And the things we girls need because no one wants to run out of those supplies in the middle of a blizzard.
~ Anne Bishop
victuailles.
~ Annie Ernaux
newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the United States and free up the men for combat duty.
~ Fannie Flagg
When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
~ Parker Conrad