- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
- Decrepit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of movie stars don't want to go to TV because of how hard you have to work. You have to be a soldier.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fuehrer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020