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This quote is just one of 9 total William Manchester quotes in our collection. William Manchester is known for saying 'The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.
This quote is just one of 9 total William Manchester quotes in our collection. William Manchester is known for saying 'The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.' as well as some of the following quotes.