Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Channing Tatum

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Edward Young

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Randy Travis

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Thomas Jefferson

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Tilda Swinton

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

Sergei Ivanov

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

Sebastian Junger

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

Plato

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Michael Caine

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

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

James Cameron

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

James A. Michener

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Chris Roberts

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

Glen Cook

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Herbert Spencer

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Gregory David Roberts

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

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.

Jim Butcher

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Kathryn Bigelow

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.