Marine Quotes · Page 3

I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities.…

— Tim Winton

“The thing about a marine is that they can be the nicest men and women you will ever meet, but when it…

— Joshua Mcnutt

I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this,…

— Barbara Block

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to…

— Thomas McGuane

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were…

— Jon Bon Jovi

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

— Gregory Alan Williams

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp,…

— Joe Lo Truglio

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our…

— Greg MacGillivray

I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but…

— Adam Driver

We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed,…

— John A. Lejeune

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

— Sylvia Earle

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

— Cobie Smulders

My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I…

— Jonathan Raban

...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they…

— Herbert F. Leary

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is…

— Rosamund Pike

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group…

— Adam Driver

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology…

— Arne Duncan

I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach…

— Art Donovan

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on…

— Georges Cuvier

Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an…

— Daniel Daly

Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked…

— Lori Wilde

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and…

— Adam Driver

I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

— Jonathan Winters

I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served…

— Adam Driver