Top 1200 Front Line Quotes & Sayings

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

My men are being unmercifully shelled. They cannot hold out if an attack is launched. The firing line and my headquarters are being plastered with heavy guns and the town is being swept by shrapnel. I myself am O.K. but the front line is being buried.

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer on the picket line, the stronger the commitment. A lot of workers think they make their commitment by walking off the job when nobody sees them. But you get a guy to walk off the field when his boss is watching and, in front of the other guys, throw down his tools and march right to the picket line, that is the guy who makes our strike. The picket line is a beautiful thing because it makes a man more human.

I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.

I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no - parking sign in front of our net.

I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

I think you look at a lot of sports, it starts with the guys up front. Your defensive line and offensive line in football and your big man in basketball, different stuff like that.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Wales are obviously a team that like to play rugby in your half and put as many people as possible in the front line and get off the line and put pressure on you.

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

My grandmother worked as a front-line service worker in the hospitals of Toronto Centre and broke her back doing it in the process.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God

France will be on the front line in the fight against terrorism.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.

Technology companies have a front-line responsibility to secure their own networks, products, and platforms.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.

I strongly endorse Donald Trump because we need a president that will put our veterans in front of the line rather than watch them die while in line.

All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

Valuing public servants would boost morale among those on the front line of implementing government policy.