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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
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,' by French director Pierre Schoendoerffer, which won the Oscar for best documentary in 1967.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
- Captain America
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Winter Soldier' - in terms of character-based, 'Winter Soldier' was so specifically for us: everything in that movie was designed around that version of Captain America that we wanted to see, that we wanted to explore. Everything in that film, all of the stylistic choices just flow from that.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020