Top 1200 Military Uniform Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

I think military is a very special thing.

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

I hang around military guys and like it.

One of the reasons that Im running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.

I have dedicated half my life to military service.

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number two, we're not expressing appreciation and acknowledging the contribution that rural America makes. Where does your food come from? Where does the water come from? Where does the energy feedstock come from? It all comes from rural areas. Where does your military come from? Nearly 35 to 40 percent of the military is from 15 percent of America's population living in rural America. It makes a tremendous contribution to this country. It just isn't recognized.

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.

Before running for office, I was an A-10 squadron commander with 325 combat hours. During my time in uniform and since coming to the House and taking up the fight to keep the plane, I have heard countless stories from American soldiers about how the A-10 saved their lives.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.

Well, Harry Reid and other members of congress, they're just furious over this Olympic uniform deal. He says we should burn the uniforms, and it's an embarrassment and a disgrace. Not as embarrassing as congress constantly borrowing money from the Chinese, but still embarrassing.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

The military is the most esteemed American institution.

Those are values that help guide not just my family's Christian faith, but that of Jewish Americans, and Muslim Americans; nonbelievers and Americans of all backgrounds. And no one better embodies that spirit of service than the men and women who wear our country's uniform and their families.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

There is nothing that a military machine can do to work a miracle.

America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show. Jacques felt himself growing gloomy again. He was well aware that to live on earth a man must follow its fashions, and hearts were no longer worn.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

I am proud to be a SEAL and serve in the military.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Military missions are not democratic development aid.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.

We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

In terms of my military duties, I filed for a delay in my enlistment.

I really like visiting military bases.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.

I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.

With growing economic prowess comes, of course, military power.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.