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Quotes About Patrol

in 1990, a fifteen-year-old boy was climbing the fence, and when he got to the top, a Border Patrol agent shot him. He fell back onto the Mexico side and he died.
~ Paul Theroux
In an uncommon move, a young US Border Patrol officer in El Paso, Francisco Cantú, disenchanted with his job, quit to become an activist on border abuses.
~ Paul Theroux
All's quiet along the Potomac to-night Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Lieutenant Onada, sir, reporting for orders
~ Hiroo Onoda
The sun began to sink. I inspected my rifle and retied my boots.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Wren was discovered in the flashing lights of a patrol car two years later, walking along the side of a highway. The soles of her shoes were as worn as if she'd danced through them, her clothing was stiff with sea salt, and scars marred the skin of her wrists and cheeks.
~ Holly Black
Marine Captain Bankson T. Holcomb, Jr., a Japanese-language officer detached from Pearl Harbor's codebreaking unit, picked up a transmission by a Japanese patrol pilot (probably the same one that had been picked up by the carrier's radar). The aircraft had reached the end of its patrol route and the pilot had "nothing to report.
~ Ian W. Toll
She whipped around and found Hud standing there staring at her. He was in ski patrol gear today, looking official. And officially hot.
~ Jill Shalvis
The net result of it was that some streets were bright with the headlights of military trucks and patrolled by National Guardsmen, and some of them were as black and empty as a crooked politician's heart.
~ Jim Butcher
Unit Eight-Kilo-Six, what's your twenty?" the radio squawked. "Eight-Kilo-Six, we are proceeding up Amalfi.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
He squinted at us. You really believe there might be zombies in Franklin Village? Maybe, I said. We just thought we'd patrol at night and search for them. But that could be dangerous, Trevor said. He leaned toward us. His eyes darted from Alec to me. That could be very dangerous. A chill rolled down my back. He had suddenly changed. His voice deepened. And his words sounded like a warning. Or a threat.
~ R.L. Stine
All appears to be quiet over on Ringrock. No boats patrol its shores, and no helicopters arrive or depart.
~ Dean Koontz
Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
In his backpack they found food and water, and after gorging themselves they hid the body and barely escaped his patrol. Armed with a pistol, a knife, a rifle, and a bayonet, they eventually found American and Filipino guerrillas. They lived in the mountainous jungles and became quite adept at picking off enemy soldiers. Their exploits could fill a thick book.
~ John Grisham
Respect and loyalty go together and gang members, like the formal military, hoplites, Yanomamo warriors, and chimpanzees on patrol, will risk and give their lives for one another.
~ Malcolm Potts
the truck. Yael was waiting at the front bumper, and as he came up to her, a sheriff's patrol car turned off the road and onto the track and accelerated toward them. Virgil said to Yael, "He's been shot, but he'll live. For the time being, anyway. He says he doesn't know anything
~ John Sandford
Having decided there was little point in denying my status as a gentrifier, I joined the neighborhood security association, a network of mostly middle- and upper-middle-class homeowners that employed a small stable of private patrol officers to cruise the neighborhood and scare any potential marauders, most of which amounted to kids loitering near the park.
~ Meghan Daum
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
~ Nick Lampson
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
~ Lamentations 5:18
Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
~ Zechariah 1:10
And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”
~ Zechariah 1:11
As the strong horses went out, they were eager to go and patrol the earth; and the LORD said, “Go and patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.
~ Zechariah 6:7