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Quotes About Salute

As the train pushed off for Yokohama, the POWs' last sight of Naoetsu was a broken line of Japanese, the few civilian guards and camp staffers who had been kind to them, standing along the side of the track. Their hands were raised in salute.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Let's salute our enemies. That makes at least one happy. (Saluons nos ennemis. - Ca fait au moins un heureux.)
~ Charles de Leusse
I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.
~ Jim Webb
The man raised his glass, 'To you!'Can't you think of a wittier t
~ Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
Bishop Peregrino smiled grimly, the way a duelist might salute a worthy opponent.
~ Orson Scott Card
Oh captain my captain
~ Walt Whitman
I'll never know and neither will you about the life you didn't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Farewell, brave boys, may your guns always salute friends and terrify enemies.
~ Hampton Sides
oh, how beautiful life is! Intoxication, forget-fulness, to float along on the stream of forgetfulness, into the twilight, deep into the darkness where there is neither failure nor regret … good alcohol, I salute you.
~ Hans Fallada
I mean it, Kiernan." "So do I." "I'll find you if you're out, I swear." "A promise, Jesse, or a warning?" "A threat—and take it that way," he advised. Then he smiled and lifted his hand to his hat in salute.
~ Heather Graham
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Shah Rukh is a one-man industry. You have to accept that and salute him.
~ Suniel Shetty
Bernie emerged from a cluster of giggling girls when he saw me, raised his cigar in salute, then ran over to my car. "You missed it, boy. You missed the greatest welcome since Caesar returned to Rome.
~ Pat Conroy
The final salute, on the day of his funeral, was to be the cutoff of all electric current in the nation for one minute. But this was deemed too costly and dangerous. Instead, only certain lights were dimmed. The wheels of progress were not stilled, even for an instant. Thomas Edison, I am sure, would have wanted it that way.
~ William J. Bennett
Be still and be aware. Look at each other for a few minutes. You may experience or feel the divine presence within the person in front of you. You may even experience or feel divine love and divine bliss. Silently say, "I AM THAT I AM. I salute the I AM within you. I salute the divine presence within you. Atma namaste!
~ Choa Kok Sui
Off with your hat as the flag goes by!
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
The morning of the funeral an honor guard from Albuquerque fired the salute; two big flags covered the coffins completely, and it looked as if the people from the village had gathered only to bury the flags.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Sir!" Alban came to rigid attention as his feet smacked the floor and saluted. "Centurion Alban reporting to the garrison commander, sir!" "I
~ Janette Oke
January 18, 1797 GENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th [the 27 Nivôse, i.e., January 16] stated that I stayed in observation throughout that battle. I don't wish any such observation on him, since he would have shit in his pants. Salute and Brotherhood! ALEX. DUMAS
~ Tom Reiss
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
~ Bob Shacochis
Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I recall Lincoln once declaring that across four years, no president could do ultimate fatal harm to the Republic, and at the end of those four years, the people could vote him out and replace him with someone they thought more capable. Even when I passionately disagreed with a president, I took solace in that and forced myself to salute even when I felt the person I was saluting was unworthy of that. At such moments, I saluted the office and not the person.
~ William R. Forstchen
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?
~ William Shakespeare
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
~ Hillary Clinton