Soldier Quotes
-
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.
-
On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
-
I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.
-
Clavain had been a soldier. He had killed more people than he could remember, even though those days had been a long time ago. It was really a lot less difficult to do when you had a cause to believe in.
-
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
-
Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?
-
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
-
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
-
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
-
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
-
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.
-
We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
-
A soldier's death, he thought, was a happy one, because a man, even in the throes of awful pain, would die in the best company of the world.
-
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
-
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
-
What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
-
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
-
I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
-
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
-
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
-
The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".
-
I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.
-
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.
-
Being a soldier's daughter, I understand that what they are doing is the real deal. But me giving statement on the issue is of no significance.
