Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosaleen Tallon

I will never go underground to remember my Marine firefighter brother. We are not doing the right thing at this sacred site.

Willie Aames

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Warren G. Harding

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.

Rudy Giuliani

Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to 4,200. He is going to take our Marine Corps from 23 battalions to 35 battalions. And he's going to reestablish and modernize our nuclear program.

Frederick W. Smith

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tell that to the Marines!

Richard Aboulafia

The Marines staked everything on the Osprey and won.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Nelson Mandela

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

Warren Farrell

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

George Gaylord Simpson

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Paul Watson

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Joseph Campbell

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

James Lovelock

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

Bob Kerrey

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Daniel Quinn

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Bible Bible

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

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,

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

William Robertson Smith

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

William Jennings Bryan

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

Woody Guthrie

As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

This land is made for you and me.

Richard M. Nixon

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.