Quotes About Soldier

At the age of ten, on Armistice Day, Alex trekked miles from his home in Washington, D.C., to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia to attend a ceremony at the grave of the Unknown Soldier. Who was the man being honored? What religion? What race? No one knew. All anybody knew was that he was an American hero. And that was, it seemed, how it should be. This was true brotherhood.

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.

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

Coalition countries stood ready to fight to the last American soldier and dollar.

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.

There's more, but I won't go on. It's a poem by Rupert Brooke. He was a soldier in the First World War. It helped him in the hellhole of the trenches to think of the things he loved. It helped me too. I made mental lists and followed the things I love, the people I love, back to sanity. I still do.

One of the finest snipers that ever graced the mud of the Western Front.

Their wet cold faces, her shapeless nose and his grotesque hooked nose like the caricature-mask of a Roman soldier, their large, contorted, abnormal mouths, made, it might seem, more for anguished curses against God than for the sweet usage of lovers, were now pressed savagely against each other and, as they kissed, queer sounds came from both their throats, that were answered by the groanings of the tree and by the raindrops as the wind shook it.

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make the soldier do something he did not want was Midnight, and Midnight did things she did not want only when Whippersnapper wanted something. That put the kitten right at the top of the pecking order. A kitten!

Bir savaÅŸç? fark?ndal??a sahiptir. Bu çok önemlidir. SavaÅŸta olduÄŸumuz için zihnimizin disipline ihtiyaç duyduÄŸunun da fark?nda olur. Bu bir askerin disiplini deÄŸil, bir savaÅŸç?n?n disiplini olmal?d?r. Asker disiplininde d??ar?dan birileri bize ne yapmam?z gerektiÄŸini söyler, savaÅŸç? disiplini ne olursa olsun kendimiz olmay? gerektirir.

I remember a story I read once, a soldier, was it at Shiloh? He was talking to me but not with his whole attention. Gettysburg? a soldier so mad with shock that he started burying birds and squirrels on the battlefield. You had lot of little things killed too, in the crossfire, little animals. Many tiny graves. p128

A holy violence, a conflict, a warfare, a fight, a soldier's life, a wrestling, are spoken of as characteristic of the true Christian.

With the men standing between five feet eight and five feet ten, they were inches taller than the average Spanish soldier—taller than Cushing. The twice repulsion of a formidable conquistador and the dispossession of his dreams made the Calusa larger-than-life figures in European New World mythology.

In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.

the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

Epidemics of childish ailments spread like a powder trail through the uprooted recruits, and many a village lad who had swaggered into the ranks with heroic ideas of fighting the Germans spent his first weeks as a soldier fighting a fever, scratching his spots or nursing a painful case of mumps.

One soldier wrote home saying that he and his peers sought to kiss her shadow.