Top 147 Colonel Quotes & Sayings

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

Poor Mr. Pickwick! ... If he played a wrong card, Miss Bolo looked a small armoury of daggers; if he stopped to consider which was the right one, Lady Snuphanuph would throw herself back in her chair, and smile with a mingled glance of impatience and pity to Mrs. Colonel Wugsby, at which Mrs. Colonel Wugsby would shrug up her shoulders, and cough, as much as to say she wondered whether he ever would begin.

Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete."

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

You were wrong. She really is the new general in town." I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware of my body's reaction to us standing so close. "Maybe. But, it's okay. You can still be colonel." He arched an eyebrow. "Oh? Did you demote yourself? Colonel's right below general. What's that make you?" I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys I'd swiped when we'd come back inside. "The driver," I said.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

Does it say 'Colonel' anywhere on my uniform?

Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

Prince Philip's principal role since 1952 has been to support the Queen. Alongside that, he has created his own working life as founder, fellow, patron, president, chairman, or member of at least 837 organizations - as well as a Colonel or Colonel-in-Chief, Field Marshal, Admiral, Air Commodore 42 times over.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.

I'm not running like Colonel [Bernie] Sanders. All reputations matter.

I've never been more comfortable in a part than with Colonel Potter.

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.

I hit the trifecta on 'Law & Order': I did the original recipe, extra crispy and the Colonel's special.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

The privilege of serving my country is not only rooted in my military service, but also in my personal history. I sit here, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, an immigrant.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn't start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall.

When I joined the family business, our clients were mostly on the marketing side, from Morris the Nine Lives Cat to KFC's Colonel Sanders.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

I'm better than P. T. Barnum and Colonel Parker put together.

Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.