Marine Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, People, Email

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

  Stuart Symington

  Children, Army, Air

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• I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Years, Return Back

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• I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Jayne Ann Krentz (2011). “All Night Long”, p.193, Hachette UK

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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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• And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine

  Jim Webb

  Military, Pride, Together

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• It's OK to have fun in the Marine Corps. I like to say we are an imperfect people working in an institution that tries to be perfect. That is a noble thing, but you have to realize there is no perfect. We're human.

  James L. Jones

  Fun, Military, People

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• We should never lose sight of the ethos that has made the Marine Corps - where 'every Marine is a rifleman' - one of America's cherished institutions and one of the world's most feared and respected fighting forces

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Fighting, Sight

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• All women are created equal, then some become Мarines.

  Katy Perry

  Equal

  "Fictional character: Herself- Soldier". Katy Perry: Part of Me, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

  Jodi Picoult

  Needs, Treasure

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• They don’t eat that much.” “In comparison to what? Starving marines?

  Karen Chance

  Starving, Comparison

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.283, Penguin

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• Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

  Rick Riordan

  Skeletons, Doors, Two

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• When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Animal

  "Cannery Row".

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• It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

  Luke Treadaway

  Thug, Play, Rainbow

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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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• Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

  Robin Hayes

  Commitment, Army, Air

  Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 8, May 18, 2004 to June 1, 2004, Government Printing Office, p. 10718, 2009.

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Law

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