Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Blaise Pascal

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Chris Crutcher

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

Arthur Ashe

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Albert Einstein

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

David Nevins

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Benjamin Harrison

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

Bob Riley

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

Bob Marley

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Edgar Lee Masters

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

William Shakespeare

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

James Whitcomb Riley

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Blaise Pascal

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.