Top 1200 Us Army Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged; let us be loud; let us be bold.

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

The way? that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,? determined to do something

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).

Lots of army officers... a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.

The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

When we are growing up, we all have our dreams - and for me, I idolised the men of the Indian army, navy, air force.

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

I am proud of all Army personnel serving in Siachen who are leaving no stone unturned to defend our motherland.

I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I loved the army, but it didn't really love me. I used to get into trouble because I thought outside the square.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

My father is a retired Navy officer; my sister is in the army. For me, defence services have been close to my heart.

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.

One of the key challenges the military has faced - and the Army, in particular - is defining our requirements and keeping them stable.

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.