Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Michael Caine

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Mark Driscoll

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

John Ruskin

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

P. J. O'Rourke

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Sitting Bull

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Joe Conason

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

Brian Rolston

I'm just like, 'Exhibition game. Sold out?' ... It's unbelievable. It's a unique thing here in Minnesota. There's no question.

Stephanie Adams

It was a very successful event. We were completely sold out.

I really thought that was it in 2000 when I sold those first two publications. But then before you know it, I was doing more work than before.

George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

I didn't see anything that sold me that a tag had been made.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Guy de Maupassant

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Sun Tzu

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...

Geoff Hoon

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

Garrison Keillor

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Tom Clancy

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Ned Beauman

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Mike Jackson

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Mike Jackson

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Jan Schakowsky

all of our soldiers still don't have up-armored Humvees.

Louis Pasteur

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

Meg Rosoff

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked