Marine Quotes
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The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.
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The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.
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We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
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Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
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I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.
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Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
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My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
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My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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My grandfather is a retired Marine, and I've always had a great deal of respect for anyone who serves our country.
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I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
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I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.
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Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
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I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
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A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.
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My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
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Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.
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We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
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There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.
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It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.
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Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.
