Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lehrer

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

Josh Mandel

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Josh Mandel

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

Lane Evans

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

John Kasich

I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.

Louis Aragon

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.

Pamela Anderson

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

Karl Marlantes

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Gillian Anderson

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

R. Lee Ermey

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

R. Lee Ermey

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

R. Lee Ermey

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

Jodi Picoult

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

Oliver North

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

Marcus Luttrell

With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.

Margaret Thatcher

Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

Margaret Thatcher

Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

Luke Treadaway

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

Michael Herr

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

John F. Kennedy

I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my express permission are the members of the Marine Corps Band. Those are the only forces I have. I want it announced that we propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come.

Rick Riordan

Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

Richard Branson

Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

Rob Halford

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

Wesley Clark

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

Winston Churchill

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

Willie Aames

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Woodrow Wilson

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Warren G. Harding

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.

Ronald Reagan

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

Will Rogers

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?

Wynton Marsalis

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

Zell Miller

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.