Soldier Quotes
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George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
George Bernard Shaw
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My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'
James Callis
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So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
Gerald Scarfe
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
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Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
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A true woman always loves a real soldier.
Belle Boyd
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
William Westmoreland
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I don't think I'd ever get typecast as a soldier.
Brian Geraghty
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
Blaise Pascal
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What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
Michael Caine
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What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
Walter de La Mare
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.
Vladimir Putin
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Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
John Eisenhower
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When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
Doug Liman
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And the good news is that you've got a brain. You do! Honest! I saw it with my own eyes, thus disproving the navy's stubborn contention that soldiers have nothing whatsoever inside their skulls. I shall write a paper for the Review. I'll be famous! Brain discovered in a soldier.
Bernard Cornwell
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Now a willpower that I have polished with an artist's delight will sustain some shaky legs and some weary lungs. I will do it. Give a thought once in awhile to this little soldier of fortune of the twentieth century.
Che Guevara
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It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start,
Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.
D. V. Ager
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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller
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I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
Agnes Varda
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'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.
Doug Liman