Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

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

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

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?

Allen West

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

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.

Douglas MacArthur

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Andrew Young

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Andrei Platonov

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Amy Carmichael

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

David Halberstam

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

William Shakespeare

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

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.

Swami Vivekananda

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Steven Erikson

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

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.

Tom Clancy

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

Sun Tzu

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

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.

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.

Sitting Bull

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Plato

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