Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Page

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Jim Talent

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

Louise Hay

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me.

Mao Zedong

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

Mao Zedong

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

Mao Zedong

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Mao Zedong

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

Mao Zedong

If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

Mao Zedong

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

Mao Zedong

An army of the people is invincible!

Lucy Powell

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

Lucy Larcom

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod.

Louis Zamperini

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

John F. Kennedy

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

Jonathan Franzen

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

Jon Snow

Winter is coming, we know what's coming with it. We can learn to live with the wildlings, or we can add them to the army of the dead.

Jon Stewart

The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

Joyce Carol Oates

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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

Jim Ryun

With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

George Mason

That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free state, that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided...

George Kennedy

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

Elvis Presley

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Elvis Presley

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Jimmy Fallon

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.

John McCain

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

John Dos Passos

The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out. The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you-- The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

John Dos Passos

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

John Michael Higgins

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

John Candy

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

John Belushi

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

John Bachman

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

Joe Haldeman

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.