Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Eastwood

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Susan Collins

It is ... discouraging to hear today that there is only one Iraqi battalion that is fully capable, ... It doesn't feel like progress.

Peter Scott

I think, on reflection, that it was a losing battle right from the start, but when we were - I mean, I was - the ultimate in any professional officer's career was to command a battalion or a regiment in operations, and that's exactly the way I looked at it, and certainly I wasn't too worried about whether the war was right or wrong.

Andy Yakulis

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

Marie Sevigne

Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions

French Proverb

God is on the side of the strongest battalions

Scott Evans

Today is a great day as we stand with you to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of the men and women of the 216th Engineer Battalion through what was a very long, challenging year in Iraq, ... It was indeed an honor to serve with the men and women who comprised the 216th.

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Craig Brown

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Victoria Justice

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

Orlando Bloom

As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

Patrick Fugit

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.

Peter Jackson

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Cameron Diaz

Who better than Cameron would understand in our society the way how good looks can be exploited? What was exciting was having her show the flip side of that, the fear and the way that it can be limiting.

Orlando Bloom

We're all in Cameron Crowe's new film, 'Elizabethtown,'

Pankaj Mishra

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepared to give David Cameron his chance - even though he is a Tory.

Richard Zuschlag

He's concerned about the people of Cameron and Vermilion parishes not getting enough help. He wants to come back and do something to help.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

John Carver

Twenty years ago, I didn't have a passion to do lighting. I started on stage, worked my way around and landed in lighting.