27 Quotes by Pat Frank

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County. Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years. So ended The Day.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

His ears were attuned for the steady firing of Couzens' heavy machine guns, which he knew should now commence, and the thud of his carefully sited mortars, but he did not hear them and he realized, suddenly and sickeningly, that the Chinese had not attacked across the spit of land. They were pouring across the ice, and had taken Dog Company in the rear.

When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.

Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies.” It.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. He remembered words which for four months he had not heard, read, or uttered, the most beautiful words in the language – faith and hope.