Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

Harold Mitchell

I was in Sydney on Saturday morning and saw all the papers and soaked it all up, then I got to the airport and thought gee, this is amazing. Even the Krispy Kreme doughnut people had put red and white tops on their take-away packs.

Alex Coletti

Knowing this channel was coming, for the past year or year and a half, we've been shooting all our shows in high def, converting them for air but saving a high-def master with 5.1 audio. Now I've got a shelf full of stuff I can't wait to get out there.

John McDonnell

Keeping that fire going is like chemistry. As the year goes on and you see your team start to gel, there?s like an air or halo that tells you this team is special. Each year, that feeling keeps you going.

Jim Voss

Just using our highly sensitive instrument -- our ears -- the starboard aft IMV(Intermodule Ventilation assembly) valve seems to be where the leak is. We can hear some air flow through there as the vestibule continues to re-pressurize using the station air,

Greg Olsen

Just to float in the air is such a great experience. I'm still literally on cloud nine about it.

Bruce Cummings

Just picture the Eiffel Tower on its side and trying to maneuver it around an aircraft carrier with little room to spare.

David Somerville

Josh and Ryan used to hang out all the time together, ... Ryan went into the Air Force, and Josh went into the Marines.

Jim Saxton

JJ came to us as a colonel, and he leaves us as a brigadier general. He's a top-notch base commander. I hope he will continue to have a good career in the Air Force and always think fondly of McGuire Air Force Base.

Rally Caparas

It actually missed every single major hub airport in the United States, at least a direct hit that is. As a result, the system was not damaged that much as far as passenger traffic throughout the rest of the United States.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Rob Gronkowski

If I don't get a Wahlburger in me soon, I'm gonna go ballistic.

Ric Flair

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

Roald Dahl

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

Robert E. Lee

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

W. P. Kinsella

If you build it, they will come.

Yogi Berra

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.

Neale Donald Walsch

If I do not go within, I go without.