Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Plato

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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.

Tertullian

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Terry Pratchett

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Larry Craig

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Joseph Bruchac

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Jacque Fresco

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Laini Taylor

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Max Hastings

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

Plutarch

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Mike Gravel

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Paullina Simons

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

John McCain

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.