Caine-quote Quote by Michael Grant

“The rifle gleamed up at him. When men do it in wartime, they give them medals, he thought.”

— Stephen King

“I got to thinking that the world would be a better place if they gave medals to great teachers rather than just soldiers who…

— Matthew Quick

“But as long as they gave us medals, that fixed it, as far as the army was concerned. You expect heroes to survive terrible…

— T. Kingfisher

“Jesus Christ," he muttered to the ceiling. "All those times I sat in the office and laughed my ass off at stories of Lee,…

— Kristen Ashley

“the hard look of a man who also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were…

— Jeff Shaara

“I even tried to join the army, but they wouldn’t have me. The bloke in the uniform took one look at my ugly mug…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“I was like, ‘Wow,’ but I got it. I had come out of a military culture, and you just have to make your objective…

— Ashlee Vance

“Men get the war they deserve.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions…

— Iain M. Banks

“Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.”

— Julie Kagawa

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

— Suraj Sani