Shrapnel Quotes

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana

Experience, Word, Thousand

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
John Hodgman

Brain, Meaningful, Cultural

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn

Three, Offensive, Defensive

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler

Battle, Small, Away

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler

Men, Human, Actually

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
James Belushi

Family, Car, Someone

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
Philip Gibbs

Down, Living, Dead

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