Soldier Quotes

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path.

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

I think deconfliction with the Russians is probably the maximum that we can do. But deconfliction is enough to prevent us killing Russian soldiers when we are attacking the Assad regime.

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

Although there are weapons for tens and hundreds of soldiers, they will not be used.

Excellent soldiers are not furious.

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier on alone.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.