Army Quotes · Page 18

My dad was in the army, I studied in army school and I am born in an army hospital.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

— Laozi

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

— Friedrich Paulus

“Military Wives—Sacrificing Months of Sex for the Country.”

— Aditi Mathur Kumar

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

— Alfred de Vigny

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

“Ten minutes later, the army had made a thirty-six kilometer square computer motherboard.”

— Liu Cixin

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

— Faye Wattleton

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man,…

— Ernest Borgnine

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Army Corps activities have a significant impact on the health, public safety, and overall quality of life for many Mississippians.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like…

— Rick Riordan

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people;…

— Anonymous

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

— Che Guevara

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

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

— Anne McClain

“In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that…

— Stuart Archer Cohen

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was…

— Stephen Ambrose

I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and…

— Subhas Chandra Bose

There is a danger in our modern practice of using embedded journalism. As there is less and less money available for journalism…

— Stuart Franklin

Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate…

— Nancy Gibbs

Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened…

— William A. Connelly

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…

— Sam Manekshaw

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular…

— Gough Whitlam

If we hadn't had nuclear weapons, we would have had to have a much larger conventional army.

— John Mearsheimer

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

— Thomas Paine

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

— Lily Allen

Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.

— Rachel Caine

It's pretty simple to play the role of an army officer.

— Dino Morea

My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.

— Cindy Sheehan

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

— Kathy Griffin

I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

— Scott Raab

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

— W. G. Sebald

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

— Mao Zedong

Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good.

— David Goggins

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.

— Hassan Nasrallah

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

— Paul Berg

I actually went to the frontline to be with my brothers at Standing Rock.

— Taboo