We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and… — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be homeless. I know what it's like to… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality,… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
“WILL WORK FOR FOOD © 2013 Lyrics & Music by Michele Jennae There he was with a cardboard sign, Will Work For… — Michele Jennae Copy Share Image
As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for… — Ann Wright Copy Share Image
I don't usually feel threatened by the militias. Most members are just indulging their fantasies of being warriors without having to sign… — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
“Mitchell was a former army ranger who’d long operated in the grey area of society, both within the military and since retiring.… — Rob Sinclair Copy Share Image
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In America, we met this guy who'd been in the army. He'd been over in the Iraq war. He said that our… — Mattew Nicholls Copy Share Image
For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.… — William James Copy Share Image
The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to take our Army up to 6,000. And Obama and Hillary are going to take it down to… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
“Ask an American soldier to identify himself, and he probably will say he is “in the Army.” By contrast, a Marine— especially… — Thomas E. Ricks Copy Share Image
We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
“A halt was called, and the men threw themselves prostrate on the road without loosening their packs. At that moment, the outfit… — Clair Kenamore Copy Share Image
That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will… — George W. Dunaway Copy Share Image
Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian… — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country… — Patty Smyth Copy Share Image
I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I… — Edmund Kirby Smith Copy Share Image
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic,… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image