Quotes about salvage (16 Quotes)


    The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

    This is the best Christmas present I could ever have received. Now it's just a matter of getting him back and hoping there is enough kidney function left to salvage so that he doesn't end up back on dialysis.

    In 1906 mission critical data was protected in bank vaults, desk drawers and filling cabinets. While the storage media were different a hundred years ago, the core issues of data recovery remain the same today. The earthquake that devastated the San Francisco Bay Area caused a major disruption in business continuity because people and businesses were unable to salvage vital business records.


    If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.


    Did young Pocahontas really intercede to prevent the execution of Captain John Smith This romantic tale is conspicuously absent from Smith's initial accounts of his captivity under Powhatan 'Arriving at Werawocomoco, their Emperour Powhatan proudly lying uppon a Bedstead a foote high upon tenne or twelve Mattes... and with such grave and majesticall countenance, as drave me into admiration to see such a state in a naked salvage, he kindly welcomed me with good wordes, and great Platters of sundrie victuals, assuring me his friendship, and my libertie within foure days... In describing to him the territories of Europe, which was subject to our Great King whose subject I was, the innumerabl e multitude of his ships, I gave him to understand the noyse of Trumpets, and terrible manner of fighting were under captain Newport my father... At his greatnesse hee admired, and not a little feared... And thus having with all the kindnes hee could devise, sought to content me he sent me home...'

    It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.


    When completed, this acquisition will expand our salvage auction business into the mid-Atlantic region. It's a good fit for Impact's expansion strategy in that it allows us to enter as a market leader with the only salvage auction physically located in northeast Pennsylvania, as well as filling in our coverage area between recently acquired salvage auctions located across Ohio and our existing strong presence in the country's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.


    Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

    Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. . . in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.

    The U. S. Army Chevrolet was wicked tight and a handful to drive for the majority of the race. But we were good soldiers we fought through the adversity and managed to salvage a decent finish. I am really proud of the guys on this team. They came through in the end with a great pit stop and excellent adjustments.


    As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

    That's why we took Trot and Manny out. If you're gonna lose, rather than have them chase balls down all afternoon, try to come out Sunday and give a good effort and salvage something out of the series.



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