Soldier Quotes - Page 40

• Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Next, Chance

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.349, Baen Books

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• For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

  Erwin Rommel

  Your Side, Jail, People

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• Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

  Erwin Rommel

  Civilization, Forget, Officers

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• I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

  Jessica Lynch

  War, Home, Opportunity

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

  Robert M. Gates

  Development, Poverty, Cheaper

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• I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Dog, Years, Done

  "Kevin McKidd Talks About 'Bunraku'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.kevinmckiddonline.com.

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• If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

  Vincent de Paul

  Beautiful, Practice, House

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Wise, Gun, Fire

  Song: Don Quixote, 1975

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• With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

  Dan Lipinski

  Character, Sacrifice, Lines

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• I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Military, Thinking, Giving

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• Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Fighting, Order

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• The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.

  Jody Williams

  Children, Grandmother, Differences

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• When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Thinking

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

  Samuel West

  Play, Mass, Murderer

  "The Guardian profile: Sam West" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

  Trevor Nunn

  Father, War, Men

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• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Men, Honor, Sitting

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• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Carl Paladino

  Zero, Memories, War

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

  Lee Pace

  Girl, Falling In Love, Military

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• I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Iraq, Deployment, Hawaii

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• My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

  Edward Ruscha

  Car, Looks, Fixing

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• Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

  Mike Jackson

  "Disabled soldier's pay-out victory" by Ned Temko, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2007.

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• You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

  Mike Jackson

  People, Mind, Done

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• Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

  Mike Jackson

  Months, Figures, Operations

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• Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mind, Unanswered Questions, Kind

  Song: My Jekyll Doesn't Hide, Album: Ozzmosis

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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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