Veteran Quotes - Page 13

• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

  Barry Zito

  Sports, Age, Example

  "Barry Zito Visits Athletics Nation". Interview with Papi Blez, www.athleticsnation.com. March 29, 2005.

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• I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Thinking

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• He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Stupid, Media

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 4, 2007.

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• For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Answers

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• ...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Moving, Pension Plans

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• I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

  Phil Roe

  Thinking, Our Veterans, World

  "CNN Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. June 16, 2009.

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• Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Safety, Valleys, Dams

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• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Young, Avoiding, Adept

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• Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
  Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
  And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Lasts, Lag

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, War, Coffee

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.121, Zola Books

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• An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

  Arthur Bloch

  Jobs, Experts, Cost

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.26, Penguin

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• We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.

  Carlos Gonzalez

  Player, Giving, Feel Good

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Talking, Guy, Listening

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• I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

  John McCain

  Country, Responsibility, Uniforms

  "Obama, McCain Tussle Over Veterans Issues". Statement to the Press, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2008.

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• If you are not prepared top take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country - who came back wounded in body, wounded in spirit - if you're not prepared to help those people, then don't send them to war in the first place.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, War, Men

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• As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

  Charles Rangel

  Military, War, Support

  "A World Without Chemical Weapons" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2013.

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• I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

  Maya Lin

  Past, Order, Names

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• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

  Maya Lin

  Cutting, Men, Land

  Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

  John F. Kerry

  War, Jail, People

  Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2004.

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