Soldier Quotes - Page 30

• So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

  Rick Warren

  Hate, War, God Love

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• When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

  Denzel Washington

  Stories, Green, Young

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• For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.

  Allen West

  War, Long, Black

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• When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

  William Westmoreland

  Inspiring, Memories, Military

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• My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

  Tiger Woods

  Fathers Day, Husband, Dad

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• The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.797, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Battle, Israeli, Settlers

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• President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

  Andrew Young

  President, Citizens, Glitter

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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• I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Play, What If

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”

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• He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Looks, Flamingos, Filthy

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, Men, Enlisted

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• A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.

  Gregory Maguire

  Princess, Elephants, Ducks

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• I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Language Words, Joy

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.296, Modern Library

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• When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Fighting, Boys

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• Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Love, Wisdom, Moving

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

  Jane Fonda

  Able, Harness, Behalf

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lonely, Loneliness, Moon

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• The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals — and sometimes populations — not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Men, Support

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• The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, War, Fall

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 13, l. 60

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

  Winston Churchill

  Leader, Triumph, Tables

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

  David Sedaris

  Night, College, Drug

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Kids, Fighting

  "Cold Turkey" by Kurt Vonnegut, inthesetimes.com. May 10, 2004.

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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