Soldier Quotes · Page 34

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?

— Hermann Goring

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever…

— Marcia Clark

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

— Alexander Pope

A soldier is called to fight, the family of a soldier is called to understand, understanding makes us heroes too

— Sarah Moores

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote…

— Richard Perle

Every soldier I've ever met knows that you've got to do more than just run out onto the battlefield screaming, 'We're going…

— Harris Faulkner

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

— John Ruskin

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

— Bret Harte

“Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an…

— Bethany Lovell

A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when…

— Bertolt Brecht

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust…

— George Orwell

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done…

— Ambrose Bierce

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve…

— John Boehner

“There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the…

— William Saroyan

With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs…

— James Cameron

To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage…

— Desmond Tutu

“So buy a home. Find a pretty girl to marry. Settle down and start a family.” Bram shook his head. Impossible suggestions,…

— Tessa Dare

... the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to…

— Erich Raeder

One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, 'Captain America: The Winter…

— Jeph Loeb

Every time I meet an ambassador, I bring to the a table a list of NGOs I think are acting against Israel,…

— Ayelet Shaked

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life…

— Maurice Chevalier

“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to…

— Dalton Trumbo

I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved…

— Peter van Agtmael

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

— Anonymous

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army…

— Susan Orlean

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

— David Gemmell

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier…

— Ian Mckellen

“Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?”

— David Finkel

“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”

— Suraj Sani

“Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.”

— Elizabeth Nelson

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

— Yaroslav Trofimov

I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.

— Pittacus Lore

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for…

— Will Smith

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

"Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for…

— Sarah Gavron

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

— Edward Young

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

— Leo Gordon