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Maynard Owen Williams Quotes

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Maynard Owen Williams
Grieving, Boots, Fortune
Letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, 1948.

The uniform of Polish Uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.

Maynard Owen Williams
Boys, Steel, Looks
The National Geographic, August 1926.

When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos.

Maynard Owen Williams
Air

Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

Maynard Owen Williams
Children, Army, Night

If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

Maynard Owen Williams
Rare Beauty, Views, Valleys

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