Soldier Quotes

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I don't think I'd ever get typecast as a soldier.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

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 matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.