Marine Quotes - Page 17

• The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Knees

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.

  Paul Walker

  Dream, Educational, School

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

  Joan Didion

  Sea, Unseen, Example

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

  John McPhee

  Limestone, Summit, Everest

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• I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

  Don Van Vliet

  Aqua

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• If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

  Zac Efron

  School, Play, Musical

  "Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling Talk THE LUCKY ONE, ARGO, THE PAPERBOY and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 15, 2012.

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• When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

  Tom Lehrer

  Peace, War, Moving

  Song: Send the Marines, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  May, Want, Operations

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• The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

  Gregory Alan Williams

  Believe, Goal, Taught

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• What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards, when he was promoted to various other higher-ranking positions, he served as a convening authority in court-martial proceedings against various marines who had been accused of atrocities - for example, in the Haditha massacre, where a group of marines went on a killing spree after one in their unit was killed.

  James Mattis

  Atrocities, Groups, Example

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Kids, Actresses, Environmentalist

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• I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

  January Jones

  Meteorologists, Wanted, Biologist

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• The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Islands, Iwo Jima

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Memorial Day, Military, Gun

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• The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

  Louis Aragon

  Men, Swings, Darkness

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• I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

  Smedley Butler

  Cities, Honor, Three

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• From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

  John A. Lejeune

  Country, War, Home

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• A Marine is never intimidated.

  Tom Monaghan

  Marine Corps, Intimidated

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• I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

  Smedley Butler

  Wall, Men, Years

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• I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell."

  Gene Wilder

  Coats, Rooms, Used

  Source: keranews.org

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• If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bètran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Dedication, Oil

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Two, Oil

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• [ General James Mattis] is a Marine's Marine who has served in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Iraq, General James Mattis, Combat

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Fall, Acting, Riding

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• We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Puff, Journalism

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