Quote by Thomas E. Ricks

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.

— Loretta Reynolds

“The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and…

— Bud Rudesill

I'm the mother of a Marine veteran.

— Lois Frankel

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

— Deb Haaland

“Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine ‘til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now.”

— Dee Tenorio

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“The US Marine Corps Historical Division”

— Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

“A Marine likes a good fight and respects a good fighter. You’ve got yourself one fine Marine for an escort and the whole Marine…

— Bud Rudesill

My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the…

— Jim Webb

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

— Art Buchwald

Well, my father was a marine so you know how that is.

— Xzibit

“You want to be a marine; you need to learn how to fuck like one.”

— Aaron B. Powell