Trenches Quotes

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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was… — Ben Barnes
On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets,… — Eric Burdon
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country… — Neville Chamberlain
Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. — Groucho Marx
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they… — Jeff Bezos
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or… — Paul von Hindenburg
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and… — Margot Livesey
I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl â€” in fact, the only girl in a cast… — Damian Lewis
I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my… — Jessica Simpson
I didn't say what I said to be controversial just because most people are picking the Patriots to win. I consider myself a pretty good… — Warren Sapp
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead — Tom Waits
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a… — George Orwell
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you… — David Kenyon Webster
It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches. — Tony Dungy
The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame. — Osama bin Laden
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the… — Boris Johnson

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