Marine Quotes - Page 11

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  Ralph Peters

  War, Tanks, Killing

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Bahamas, Santa Cruz

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• The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

  Steven Pressfield

  Baby, War, Pride

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.

  William McKinley

  Grief, Home, Heart

  Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications

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• At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Important, World

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• Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.

  Jean Schmidt

  Running, Cutting, Coward

  "Ugly times" by Bruce Morton, www.cnn.com. November 22, 2005.

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• Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers.
  I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Bus Stops, Lasts, Royal

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Scotland, Sea

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of development...both Marine Ecosystems and Global Change and Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans are valuable troves that could profitably be mined, and any academic bookshelf would wear them well.

  Carl Safina

  Art, Ocean, Book

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• The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Diversity

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• I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

  Josh Mandel

  Two, Iraq, Marine Corps

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• You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

  Bryan Fischer

  Running, Army, Navy

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Research, Santa

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Iraq, America

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

  Jim Lehrer

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• I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

  RJ Mitte

  Military, Air, Navy

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

  Tom Monaghan

  Son, Guy, Want

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• I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

  Art Buchwald

  Stripes, Unhappy, Credit

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.

  David A. Freedman

  Challenges, Survival, Individual

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• A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Troops, Courtesy

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• I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Hurt, Jobs, Kids

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Cities, Long

  "War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Cancer, Adventure, Numbers

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• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Cities, Community

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