Marine Quotes · Page 4

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.

— Richard Harding Davis

The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

— Anonymous

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

— Victor H. Krulak

As Marines, it's drilled into us... to take care of fellow Marines.

— Kyle Carpenter

It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

— William Overgard

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

— Philip Caputo

Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

— Henry Pierson Crowe

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

— Leon Uris

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came…

— Gene Hackman

“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact…

— Clint Van Winkle

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

— Catherine Bell

I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.

— Loretta Reynolds

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

— Leon Uris

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall…

— Anonymous

“On the same convoy were two marine “snuffies,” or combat correspondents, Steve Berntson and Dale Dye.”

— Mark Bowden

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know,…

— James Mattis

I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps.…

— Art Donovan

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was…

— Bruce Springsteen

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

Sometime ago, I teamed up with a former Marine attack helicopter pilot. We were both frustrated by biased coverage of women in…

— Paula Broadwell

I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period, I spent most of my time…

— Smedley Butler

In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion…

— Erik Wolpaw

Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in…

— Argus Hamilton

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a…

— Anne Applebaum

People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid…

— William Howard Taft

When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures…

— John McPhee

What concerned me was that [James Mattis] played not only a critical role as a battlefield commander in Fallujah, but also, afterwards,…

— James Mattis

Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from…

— Paul Watson

Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going…

— Bill Ayers

Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army…

— David L. Ulin

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

The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

— Alexander Vandegrift

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

— Michael Hudson

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.

— John McPhee

What part of marine girlfriend dont you understand?

— Anonymous

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

— Jonathan Winters

All women are created equal, then some become Мarines.

— Katy Perry

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

— Josh Mandel