Marine Quotes · Page 8

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

“Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married [...]. The iron is less dangerous.”

— Anonymous

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the…

— Harry S. Truman

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

— Frederick W. Smith

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military…

— James L. Jones

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

— David Brooks

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at…

— Thomas Holcomb

We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do.…

— Tommy Chong

When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a…

— John F. Kerry

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead,…

— Loretta Lynch

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

— Anonymous

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock…

— James F. Amos

I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and…

— Ashton Holmes

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for…

— Nathaniel Fick

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices…

— Ted Danson

If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch.…

— Lenny Bruce

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

We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the…

— Bill Ayers

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

— Phil Hartman

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

— Wynton Marsalis

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

— Enric Sala

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well,…

— Henry Rollins

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

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

— Lee Trevino

Marines are expeditionary - we are meant to take on unfamiliar missions. But we are not police.

— Jake Auchincloss

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

— John W. Vessey, Jr

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been…

— Gillian Anderson

Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did…

— Earl Hancock Ellis

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

— James F. Amos

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

— Jeff VanderMeer

We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

— Josephus Daniels

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

— Edith Widder

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

— Chesty Puller