Frank Nugent Quotes

• The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.

  Frank Nugent

  Army, Moon, Sun

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• ...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.

  Frank Nugent

  Eye, Color, Long

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• Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

  Frank Nugent

  War, Native American, Men

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• Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

  Frank Nugent

  Men, America, Confederate

  "Fictional character: Ethan". "The Searchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

  Frank Nugent

  Dog, Dirty, Book

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• Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.

  Frank Nugent

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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