Marine Quotes - Page 8

• Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Team, Air, Important

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• MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

  Chris Kyle

  Regret, Loss, People

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• After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

  George S. Day

  Running, Shoulders, Medal

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• But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

  Hugh Shelton

  Opportunity, Soldier, Honor

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

  Nelson Mandela

  Whales, Land, Ecosystems

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• Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

  Harvey Keitel

  Ideas, People, Literature

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• Deep thinking in the ranks leads only to drinking.

  William Overgard

  Drinking, Thinking, Marine Corps

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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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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Fighting, Men

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• I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion; as big mouths with big hearts.

  Catherine Leroy

  Heart, Thinking, Mouths

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• I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the advance staff that after landing, instead of walking to the motorcade the President would walk across the road to view the ocean at sunset. I won the bet.

  Pete Souza

  Ocean, Sunset, 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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• A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

  John Zachary Young

  Science, Men, Water

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• But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Hands, Years, Fishing

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• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  Michael Oxley

  Military, Cutting, Army

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• I had gone to school to study marine biology.

  Skeet Ulrich

  School, Gone, Study

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• I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Winning, Firsts

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• I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

  Harry S. Truman

  Regret, Choices, Letters

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1950, Volume 6".

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• The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."

  Katherine Amelia Towle

  Able, Needs, Nicknames

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• Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

  Lynn Montross

  Numbers, Training, Navy

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• But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

  Patricia Richardson

  Mother, Father, Get Better

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

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• I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

  Catherine Bell

  Girl, Teenager, Character

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

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• Fleets cannot operate without bases.

  John A. Lejeune

  Marine Corps, Bases

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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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• 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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