John Ratzenberger Quotes

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

John Ratzenberger

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• Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Being
  • Soldier
  • Intrinsic

• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • War
  • Think
  • Eyes

• Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Producer

• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Men
  • Home
  • Clothes

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Best
  • Boat
  • Greek

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Great
  • Character
  • America

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Children
  • Why
  • Play

• Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Feel
  • Soldier
  • Uniform

• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Career
  • Play

• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Soldier

• I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

  

  Idi Amin
  • Good
  • Family
  • Army

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Business
  • Man

• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Courage
  • Soldier
  • Endurance

• There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)-likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Soldier
  • Entrepreneur

• Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.

  

  Raymond T. Odierno
  • Military
  • Leader
  • Soldier

• Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; ... I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. ... Blepyrus: But who will till the soil? Praxagora: The slaves. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money

• Have you ever been with a girl, you had an argument and you wanted to make up with her? As long as you say nothing, you can make up with her. If you say something, it's going to be another argument, you are going to get no pussy and you go to bed mad. But if you don't say nothing, it gets closer and closer, y'all make love and it's all expressed through love.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Mad

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Rest

• I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Soldier