If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight,… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up.… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
“In Europe we felt that our enemies, horrible and deadly as they were, were still people. ... But out here I soon gathered that… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share
