Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Fitzpatrick

If the stock market were not making five- and six-year highs, Iran and the U.S. were fast friends and the Nigerian militants were stuffing flowers in the gun muzzles of the Nigerian army -- then we might be worried about a reversal, but not now.

He was down in Pennsylvania avoiding us, ... He was staying in a Salvation Army.

We are trying to assist the army and government to scale up so they can receive these new people.

We must wait now for sounding to be performed by the pilot's organizations and the Army Corp of Engineers.

We had to take something different and do something with it. It was a gamble, but I thought it was a natural offense for the academy's players. I wasn't an idiot. I knew the key to beating Army and Navy was to out-recruit them. The best way to do that was to do something different.

Richard Carmona

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

Ring Lardner

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

Rick Perlstein

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President').

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.

James Blunt

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

Let's beat Army first, then take on the Mountain West for a fantastic finish to a historic season.

Alexander Haig

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.

My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

Lawrence Wilkerson

My army right now is truly in bad shape. Problems are brewing.

Jamie Cullum

My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.

Jim Parrack

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Nigel Hamilton

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.

Edward Abbey

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

Edward Abbey

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Army life don't agree with me.

Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

David Niven

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

Joe Nemechek

Since we didn't make the Chase, our goal right now is to finish 11th and we can do that. We have some race tracks coming up that we like and can run well at. We proved that last year, and if we can repeat that performance, we'll be contending for 11th place and the one million dollar bonus that goes with it. We have that Army spirit of never giving up.

Joe Nemechek

Since joining the Army team I've flirted with glory in California a couple of times, but wasn't able to complete the job. I think it's time to change all of that.

Mladic is in Serbia, and as you know, Mladic is protected with power of the army.

Mladic is in Serbia and, as you know, Mladic is protected by power of the army. What I need is an... obligation from Belgrade to arrest him and deliver him to The Hague.

John Scofield

Military bases were damaged that need to be repaired. Those levees (in New Orleans) need to be repaired, so the Army Corps of Engineers is going to need money, ... There's highway money that's going to be needed for all the interstates that have been damaged. There are damages to the wildlife refuges down there.

No part of the Yugoslav army was spared.

Kenny Guinn

Nevadans can be proud of their efforts to help people impacted by the hurricane, ... With the assistance of nonprofit groups such as Catholic Charities, United Way, Red Cross, Salvation Army and many others that have worked hard to assist the evacuees, Nevada has demonstrated our support for the victims of Katrina.

George Washington

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another

Many will be cooperating in mobilizing a citizens' army of volunteers to do two things. To warn merchants of what the law requires them to do, and to report violations to a new toll-free hotline.

Sharon and his army control the West Bank, and still these things happen,

Several of agitators and cops were injured when the police intervened to quell the ransacking mob. We have called out the army who is now assisting the police in enforcing the curfew in the town.