Soldier Quotes · Page 10

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

— Steven Erikson

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

— Christopher Dodd

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

— Ovid

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

— Samuel West

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

— Matsuo Basho

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

— Lawrence Korb

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

— Thornton Wilder

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

— Zachary Taylor

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in…

— Guy Sajer

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

— Jack McDevitt

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and…

— Robert Downey, Jr

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

— Paullina Simons

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

— Swami Vivekananda

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to…

— Margaret Sanger

On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take…

— Vivien Leigh

And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden…

— Michael Hastings

Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on…

— Thabo Mbeki

Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got,…

— George Washington

I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who…

— Martin Scorsese

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war…

— Jessica Lynch

We're at war with the ISIS caliphate that sprang up because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama precipitously withdrew all American forces from…

— Mike Pence

“Halloo down there,” the voice said. Ziba saw a burly soldier in armor standing at the edge of the cliff. “Are you…

— Glen Robinson

I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a…

— Cary Fukunaga

You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All…

— Ilona Andrews

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.'…

— Pope Francis

“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring…

— Corrie Ten Boom

“It was late; I’d been sleeping. I woke up to the sound of him crying. The ward was dark, with only the…

— Libba Bray

“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he…

— Henry Miller

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders…

— Julie Garwood

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

— Harry S. Truman

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

— Sasha Pivovarova

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

— Benny Gantz

Is your father a soldier, because your a bomb and you just kill me.

— Banks

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I was a general and a soldier, and I am proud of that.

— Lloyd Austin

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

— Seneca the Younger

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

— Henry David Thoreau