Quotes About Veteran

One of the first expedients of the professional writer that Isabella had learned from me was the art of procrastination. Every veteran in the trade knows that any activity, from sharpening a pencil to cataloging daydreams, takes precedence over sitting down at one's desk and squeezing one's brain.

As an older player, I really look forward to and love being able to mentor younger guys and be able to help them grow as well as going in there competing and trying to win games.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

She approached the Assembly with the attitude of a veteran middle school teacher, which meant she was stern enough to follow the procedure but flexible enough to make compromises where special treatment was required.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry on doing your job and shut up,' Steve Annabell, a British veteran of the Falkan War … 'When you leave the service, when you come back from a situation like that, there's no button they can press to switch your emotions back on. So you walk around like a zombie. They don't deprogram you. If you become a problem they just sweep you under the carpet.

The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk. And losing battles too.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

Within seconds he was reading the IMDb profile of this actress, a veteran of numerous television commercials and a few indie films.

Silence. Silence! And in silence ponder the similitudes between cannons and mouths. The simpleton beholds a cannon and phant'sies it an infallible destroyer of foes. But the veteran artilleryman knows that sometimes, when a cannon speaks, it bursts. Especially when it has been loaded in haste. When this occurs, Daniel, the foe is untouched.

The danger's passed, the wrong is righted; the veteran's ignored, the soldier's slighted.

When Jack Colby first came aboard The Maine looking for a job, wearing a T-shirt that said: "Wounded Combat Vet—Some Reassembly Required

Every veteran since the first war got fucked big-time. Maybe you should stop feeling sorry for yourself. There's no war long enough or bad enough to mess up your head as bad as you messed it up yourself.

Hassan N'Dam is a very good fighter, he's very experienced and been around a long time. He's got good footwork, very good movement.

I am a hundred and forty six years old and this is not my first unwinnable war.

The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.