#explosion

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#ancestors #been #both #business #come

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything. ↗

— Robin Quivers

#everything #explosion #going #i #life

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anxious #astronauts #because #excited #explosion

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ↗

— Arthur Hoppe

#explosion #population #right #right time #time

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world. ↗

— Jay London

#end #end of the world #explosions #having #i

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#characters #excited #explosion #getting #getting old

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#entrepreneurs #explosion #i #support #system

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America. ↗

— Ayatollah Khomeini

#black #congratulate #everyone #explosion #great

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#car #covering #explosion #far #most