Quotes About Camaraderie

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

Obviously, in the buildup to some fights, there's animosity and testosterone and banter. But at the end of the day, we all understand that this is a business, just two men who are trying to further their careers and provide for their families.

It was always the same: in the ring you wanted to kill someone, but once you got out you were mates again.

You want to know something? You're all right, Andrew. You and Sara and Sean. You're all all right, have been all through these last few days, and I won't forget it." "Oh, sure." He put on his best Cockney accent. "We'ave been blooming wonders, we have. Three right ream and rorty coves." "Well, you have been—in spite of that shoful accent that you shouldn't even try.

Milt Copulos, a friend of Jim Webb, spent three and a half years in the hospital and received the last rites seven times as a result of his Vietnam service. He put it this way: "There's a wall ten miles high and fifty miles thick between those of us who went and those who didn't, and that wall is never going to come down.

where Halder and Hans usually arrived first and had something to eat, perhaps sausage with a bit of sauerkraut.

Los amigos de Haas se llamaban el Tormenta, el Tequila y el Tutanramón.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice.

One gives you the shirt off his back, mused Des, and the other offers to help you bury bodies. I do believe you have made some new friends, Pen!

Somebody comin', he said softly. Five or six, maybe. His words were spoken over an empty fire, for each of us vanished ghostlike into the surrounding darkness. I, fortunately, had the presence of mind to retain my coffee. With the Ferguson rifle in my right hand, I drank coffee from the cup in my left.

Then he turned to Zero, who had been quietly digging in his hole since Stanley's return. Zero's hole was smaller than all the others.

One was a fast-talking, skinny white guy. With him was a big dude wearing a cowboy hat and boots.

I don't believe fine young ladies enjoy themselves a bit more than we do, in spite of our burnt hair, old gowns, one glove apiece, and tight slippers that sprain our ankles when we are really silly enough to wear them. and I think jo was quite right.

Yes, Father, I have played so many parts that I shall not fail now but enjoy the masquerade, since I have a partner in it

he didn't feel threatened by talented men of his own age

Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.

Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with. Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.

The December night was cold and Anton had no coat. Gustav took off his woollen scarf and wrapped it round Anton's thin neck and Anton led the way, pounding very fast, towards Marinplatz, towards a dark beer cellar they used to frequent when they were young. They

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

Me! Me that taught you how for to walk abroad like a man—whin you was a dhirty little, fish-backed little, whimperin' little recruity. As you are now, Stanley Orth'ris! Ortheris said nothing for a while, Then he unslung his belt, heavy with the badges of half a dozen regiments that his own had lain with, and handed it over to Mulvaney. I'm too little for to mill you, Mulvaney

I had a hell of a time getting here, brother," I revealed when we had finished trading insincerities.