Top 1200 Us Army Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

I had joined the army as a sepoy in 1951.

This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You played three-card monte with our souls from day one, and when we couldn't find the queen, you sent us to Hell to be tortured for eternity. That was your great plan for humanity? All you gave us here was daisies and fairy tales and you acted like that was enough. How were we supposed to resist evil when you didn't even tell us about it?

I love the Army with every bone in my body.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

I have always been fascinated by the uniform and the army.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!

The army is under orders to defend every place.

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

I will not move my army without onions.

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Coming from a uniformed background I can relate to the army.

How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

I knew some of the army quite well.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

My father was in the Army so I have lived all over India.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

You have to give the soldiers, the Army, a clear vision.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

If there is a gay army, I am their warrior princess.

As we live our human lives, let us be like the water. Let us be conscious of the flow. Let us not forget the great ground of being that draws us on through life. Let us live in a knowing hope, aware that all being is in transition, that all movement is back to the source. Let us treat those around us as reminders of our illusionary individuality. We know that they are us and we are them connected in ways we cannot fathom. Let us grow in compassion for all beings, for they share our journey.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

Join the army and see the next world.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I smoked pot in college and in the Army.

Bring the army of the faithful through.

A rational army would run away.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

The U.S. army is pretty terrible. Never join it!

One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.

The mighty army of time is without equal.

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

My own father and grandfather served in the Army.

I spent 17 years in the Brazilian army.

Probably the army was happy to see me go.

To be courageous , you have to have an army of people holding you.

Let the Black man go - stop lying to us that you love us. And if you really love us, let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

I have always had the passion of joining the army.