Army Quotes - Page 22

• My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

  Toby Keith

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Song: Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue, Album: Greatest Hits 2, 2002

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• I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Dumb, Soul

  Song: Saved

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• I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

  John Michael Higgins

  Navy, Stage Actors, Months

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

  Chuck Hagel

  Disaster, Ends, Dangerous

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• In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Space, Territory

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• Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.

  Etgar Keret

  Strong, Writing, Fighting

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• The Army's always had a special place in my heart.

  John M. McHugh

  Heart, Special, My Heart

  "Obama nominates GOP congressman as Army secretary", www.cnn.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

  Rick James

  Want

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Wise, Race, Self

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.

  William Sanderson

  Book, Law, Noble

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.

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• My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.

  Veronica Webb

  Mean, Government, Years

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• Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Taken, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

  Honore de Balzac

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that the drops wear away the stone. I try to be part of that army.

  Henning Mankell

  Art, Believe, Trying

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• People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Names, Iraq

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• Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all.

  Jinxx

  Love You, Makeup, Thinking

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• It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

  George W. Bush

  Afghan

  A joint press conference of President George W. Bush and Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House, www.washingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.

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• A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

  Samuel Adams

  Jealous, Eye, People

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• It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, People, Suffering

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• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Children, Land, Giving

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• And nothing formed against me shall stand. You hold the whole world in Your hands. I'm holding onto Your promises. You are faithful. You are faithful. You are faithful. I know Who goes before me. I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side. The One who reigns forever, He is a Friend of mine. The God of angel armies Is always by my side.

  Chris Tomlin

  Angel, Hands, Forever

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• I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.

  James Lee

  Dream, Home, Dark

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• The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.

  Ken Gillespie

  Leadership, Senior, Jobs

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• We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

  Rick Hillier

  Jobs, People, Able

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• The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Paris, Tree

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