Marine Quotes · Page 7

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have…

— Peter Pace

Never thought I would be in your arms! Better yet never thought I would be in the arms of a Marine! So…

— Anonymous

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

— R. Lee Ermey

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but…

— Kevin Powers

I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was growing up and always wanted to be surrounded by wildlife.

— Ashley Roberts

“Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine ‘til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years…

— Dee Tenorio

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

— Sylvia Earle

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War…

— James F. Cooper

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

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead…

— Oliver P. Smith

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim…

— Pamela Anderson

From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend…

— Heather Locklear

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe,…

— Al Capone

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one…

— William Manchester

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

— James Mattis

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that…

— Jim Webb

My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman,…

— David Douglas Duncan

All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should…

— Paul Watson

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

— Paul Watson

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business.…

— Charles Duhigg

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their…

— Tom Clancy

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war…

— Thomas Sowell

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct…

— Huey Morgan

My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.

— Kellie Pickler

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to…

— Chesty Puller

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

— Jim Webb

Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of…

— Paul Watson

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

— Jonathan Winters

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

— Deb Haaland

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

— Winfield Scott

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

— Mark Kelly

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

— John M. McHugh

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Joshua Mcnutt

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

— James Mattis

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

— Michael Herr

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

— Sheldon Whitehouse