Quotes About Veteran

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

I love the role of being the experienced driver and that is definitely the case next year - I think I am the most experienced guy in F1 next year.

Linda Ross Vice president of operations for the Corporation and U.S. Navy veteran.

these years later and from stirring it up I started having dreams again about the combat, only the dreams were all mixed in with things I started doing for certain people after the war. I was discharged on October 24, 1945, a day before my twenty-fifth birthday, but only according to the calendar.

They say the average number of days of actual combat for a veteran is around eighty. By the time the war was over the Army told me I had 411 combat days, which entitled me to $20 extra

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

Any Marine veteran can reach back thirty or forty years and summon the names of his drill instructors. Flying in a Marine jet over Parris Island, Brig. Gen. Randy West looks down on the swampy land and simply says , "I was born there.

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.

After a great deal of discussion and negotiations, I receive a telegram informing me that they are going to make an exception because I am a veteran who has become a gigantic pain in the ass.

R. E. MORSE A veteran General who commands the largest army in the world.

I don't want any up-and-coming guys. I want someone that's established already, that's good.

I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.

When you've been a soldier for thirty-five years you like to win battles, but you like to feel you helped bring peace, too.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

A little further on, you see an old soldier changing his linen. His face and body are of a sort of cinnamon-brown color, and gaunt as a skeleton. He has no arm at all; it has been cut off at the shoulder. He is sitting with a wideawake air, he puts himself to rights ; but you see, by his dull, corpse-like gaze, his frightful gaunt-ness, and the wrinkles on his face, that he is a being who has suffered for the best part of his life.

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.