Marine Quotes - Page 7

• The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

  John S. McCain, Jr.

  Team, Unique, Land

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• The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

  Ed Bearss

  Military, Men, Boys

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• Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long... He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.

  Lori Wilde

  Eye, Hair, Long

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• I didn't have toys and bikes; I'd go out and pick up rocks. I was into science and nature. It was my first love. I was going to be a vet and a marine biologist. I went to university and studied biology for two weeks and I just thought: "I've been conned!"

  Ricky Gervais

  First Love, Two, Rocks

  "Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Memories, War

  Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

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• Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

  Drew Carey

  Perfect, Tests, Score

  Interview with Mary Buckheit, proxy.espn.com. September 9, 2002.

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• It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

  William Overgard

  Friendly, Doe, Pay

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• If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

  Nicolas Cage

  Strong, Numbers, Kind

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• In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Military, School, Missions

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• Here's to the drunken Marine
  With beer in his canteen!
  You've heard of the Unknown Soldier
  But, never an unknown Marine!

  John Ripley

  Beer, Soldier, Canteen

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• Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

  William Overgard

  Drinking, Thinking, Marine Corps

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• But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  College, Talking, Pigeons

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• Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter

  Jeff Lindsay

  Detectives, Tides, Habit

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• You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Army, Thinking, Clothes

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• All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?" "Why don't you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sharks, Two, Swim

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• Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Stars, School

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

  Aimee Friedman

  Mom, Ocean, Views

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• When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Ocean, Moving, Writing

  "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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• It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Believe, Feminist

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.240, Haymarket Books

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• Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Judging, Looks

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.58, Penguin

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• Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Real, War

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• We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

  Scott Ritter

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ghetto

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

  Jim Beaver

  Funny Inspirational, Love You, Parenting

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• Fleets cannot operate without bases.

  John A. Lejeune

  Marine Corps, Bases

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