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Soldier Quotes
On duty, calling, and the people who answer it.
Being a soldier runs through these quotes as both a family inheritance and a personal calling, alongside lines about quieter forms of service that never happen on a battlefield. One speaker even extends the word to describe a spouse's daily resilience. Related: Duty quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population... we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Lover
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every lover is a soldier.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020