Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Gerald Griffin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Gerald Griffin.
Last updated on November 10, 2024.
Gerald Griffin

Gerald Griffin was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. His novel The Collegians was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was "wasting his time" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor.

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet. — © Gerald Griffin
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
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