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Quotes About Frontline

Every day, those on the front lines are putting themselves at risk to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm honored to be partnering with Sharecare to provide immunity-boosting shots to our local Atlanta heroes and give them the support they need during this time.
~ John Collins
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
~ Alan Price
We are the first on the frontline to go into countries to liberate people in the name of freedom - that's what we've claimed. And now, all of a sudden, they need our help and we turn them away. Yet the rest of Europe stands ready to help. Why are we the first to jump ship?
~ John Barnes
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
~ Max Beckmann
Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization's improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.
~ Alan G. Robinson
I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that prison walls alone are no longer effective in stopping crime – inside or outside of prison.
~ David Gauke
You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.
~ Norman Swan
I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.
~ Robert Fripp
If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.
~ Richard Branson
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
~ Neil Gaiman
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
~ Colin Powell
I went to Afghanistan in '96 to write about terrorist training camps south of Jalalabad and Tora Bora, in the mountains. I was there right before the Taliban took over, literally a few weeks before they took Kabul. The frontline wasn't terribly active, but it was definitely there. And they swept into power.
~ Sebastian Junger
The Iranians had to come to the forefront of supporting and helping Iraq fight Daesh with advisers, with other help, logistical support for our armed forces, and we very much welcomed that.
~ Haider al-Abadi
The CFPB has an obligation to protect our seniors, protect our frontline workers, protect our service workers, and protect our families by developing tools to combat predatory debt collection practices.
~ Cori Bush
When President Trump got out of the Paris climate accords, we got 412 cities to say we will do it instead, because we're on the front line with our firefighters dealing with historic fires and floods.
~ Eric Garcetti
When it comes to our public services, decentralisation means giving power back to those on the front line - our doctors, nurses, teachers and physiotherapists, and our locally elected officials.
~ Charles Kennedy
A popular aphorism soon circulated among frontline troops: "Never were so few commanded by so many from so far." Asked why the Germans failed to bomb AFHQ headquarters, a cynical American major replied, "Because it's worth fifty divisions to them.
~ Rick Atkinson
Siempre hay momentos en que el lugar del comandante no es la retaguardia con su estado mayor sino la vanguardia con sus tropas.
~ Robert Greene
The general who leads in the front of battle is a fool.
~ Robert Jordan
By 1917, a British fighter pilot arriving at the front had an average life expectancy of less than three months.
~ Adam Hochschild
We are not, indeed, in the front-line, but only in the reserves, yet in every face can be read: This is the front, now we are within its embrace.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
And be very careful at the front, Paul." Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!
~ Erich Maria Remarque
In Wirklichkeit vergessen wir nichts. Solange wir hier im Felde sein müssen, sinken die Fronttage, wenn sie vorbei sind, wie Steine in uns hinunter, weil sie zu schwer sind, um sofort darüber nachdenken zu können.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
~ Erich Maria Remarque