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Quotes About Patrol

Everybody makes himself inconspicuous when the captain asks for volunteers for night patrol. But one man, the pure warrior, has already rubbed burnt cork on his face. He believes winning the war is his personal responsibility.
~ Joseph Bonanno
He sends scouts ahead when he goes on patrol. He's set a permanent guard at the camp entrance. He's enforcing every rule. Half the Clan is on punishment duty for breaking one code or another." He glanced over his shoulder. "Everyone's scared they'll be reported. The warriors are so tense they hardly speak to one another, and the apprentices act like they're walking on quails' eggs.
~ Erin Hunter
He sent a whole patrol." Firestar drew in a deep breath. "Then all four Clans are fighting on our territory.
~ Erin Hunter
I'm part of a ShadowClan patrol. I'm going to fight for my Clan!
~ Erin Hunter
Bluestar leading a patrol?" muttered Cloudpaw. "That ought to go well. Watch out for flying hedgehogs!
~ Erin Hunter
Wake up," the white warrior meowed, giving Lionblaze another prod. "What are you, a dormouse?" "Did you have to do that?" Lionblaze complained. "I was having this really great dream. . . ." "And now you can go on a really great water patrol." Cloudtail's tone was unsympathetic.
~ Erin Hunter
Did you really need to yawn like that, Graypaw? Oh, I see, it's because it's the dawn patrol, and you're tired.
~ Erin Hunter
I've heard it said that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. To that end, I think it's worth noting that the very first police force in America was created as a 'patrol' to keep slave populations under control.
~ Steve Stoute
Every day at precisely noon a fellow turns up on a busy street corner with a green flag and a bugle. He waves the flag, blows a few notes on the bugle, utters a mysterious incantation, and goes away. A cop, observing this exercise over a period of weeks, finally gets overwhelmed by curiosity. What the hell are you doing? asks the cop. Keeping giraffes away, says the fellow. The cop says, But there are no giraffes around here. The fellow says, Doing a good job, ain't I?
~ Max Gunther
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
~ Marion Barry
A patrol had been sent out to look at the road between two towns, but some Portuguese had come along and told the patrol that this was one of the English magician's roads and was certain to disappear in an hour or two taking everyone upon it to Hell - or possibly England.
~ Susanna Clarke
Un profesor aprensivo planea casarse con la chica de sus sueños, ¡pero antes debe acompañar a su futuro y sobreprotector cuñado –un policía– a una patrulla infernal!: Ride Along [Compañero de patrulla].2 (Atención al detalle: cualquier cosa «infernal» aporta siempre un plus de comicidad.)
~ Blake Snyder
I don't remember what it stood for," Ballard said. "I was on patrol in Pacific Division and I remember filling out the forms on the MDC. Geographic something or other." "Geographic Reporting and Safety Program," Bosch said. "The guys down in the ASS Office really worked some OT on it." "Ass Office?" "The Acronym Selection Section. You never heard of it? They got about ten guys down there full-time.
~ Michael Connelly
most visible police department.
~ Michael Connelly
Back when I was riding patrol, you know what we called a killing that came down to simple street justice?" "What?" "The brass verdict.
~ Michael Connelly
No level of border security, no wall, doubling the size of the border patrol, all these things will not stop the illegal migration from countries as long as a 7-year-old is desperate enough to flee on her own and travel the entire length of Mexico because of the poverty and the violence in her country.
~ Jeh Johnson
Nothing at all in there about the Time Patrol?" the President asked. "No, ma'am." "That's not good," the President said. The Keep had no opinion on that. That wasn't her job. She was a tiny woman, slender, with short black hair.
~ Bob Mayer
And as if blowing it up, flooding it, and keeping it behind the klyon wasn't enough, State Security special forces patrolled the area until 1989. Some locals say there was an additional 'live fence' of thousands of vipers specially bred for this purpose by Uzbeks along the southern Black Sea, under something called decree number 56. Why Uzbeks? Why vipers? Did decree 56 read: 'Let us fulfil the five-year snake plan in one year'?
~ Kapka Kassabova
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.
~ James Comey
On patrol, he had sometimes felt that he was just as likely to be shot in the back by an Afghan police officer as to be killed by a Taliban insurgent. There were always a handful of Afghan comrades alongside him who had a hard stare that Bordin felt as hostility.
~ Steve Coll
The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 said, "Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don't think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it's going to get worse."11
~ Michael Savage
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to. This book is dedicated to those fine men.
~ Terry Pratchett
On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.
~ Ric Keller
Blah, blah, blah, regret to inform you that DI Gray has tendered his resignation; blah, blah, blah; opportunity to reward performance; blah, blah, blah; suggestions by next Wednesday. McPherson had scribbled, "BEATTIE?" in the margin in red biro. Idiot. Logan stuck the memo back in the drawer. Detective Sergeant Beattie couldn't arrest his own backside with three patrol cars and a search warrant.
~ Stuart MacBride