Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

Catherine Bell

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Kurt Vonnegut

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

Ed Royce

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Edward Johnson

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

Edward Kennedy

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Dean Koontz

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

Chester Nez

When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do,

Bernard Law Montgomery

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

John Harrison

As a sailor it was very important to me, and it reinforces a sense of place.

Gary Jobson

Every sailor is doing something at every moment. There is no letup.

Daya Master

The three sailors died. One Sea Tiger cadre was injured.

Fritz Sauckel

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Luanne Rice

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

Emily Dickinson

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

George Orwell

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

Horatio Nelson

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.