Soldier Quotes - page 4

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal. (Tupac Shakur)
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name. View quote
Seishirō Itagaki
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. View quote
Thomas Hood
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful ... The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over - a century after it is over. View quote
Joyce Kilmer
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. View quote
Propertius
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher - a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't. (Steve Harvey)
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing. View quote
Jody Williams
Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal. View quote
Jody Williams
Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day? Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away. Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away. View quote
John Boyne
Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember. View quote
Eric S. Nylund
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion. View quote
Etgar Keret
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. View quote
Michael Caine
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers. View quote
Clara Barton
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier. View quote
Daniel O'Connell
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air. (Louis Zamperini)
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn. View quote
Naoko Takeuchi
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. View quote
William Petty
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me. View quote
William Westmoreland
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently. View quote
Garth Ennis