Soldiers quotes
429 soldiers quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Jarhead
“- Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Thank you.
- Staff Sgt. Sykes: Don't thank me, just don't fuckin' die.” - From the movie: 300
“We did what we were trained to do, what we were bred to do, what we were born to do!”
- From the movie: Beau Geste
“I'm going to die. I'll be buried under the sand and forgotten. When I was a little boy, I thought soldiers always died in battles. I didn't know there were so many soldiers... and so few battles... and so many fevers.”
- From the movie: This Is England
- From the movie: White Christmas
“- Phil Davis: We wouldn't be any good as generals.
- Major General Thomas F. Waverly: You weren't any good as privates.” - From the movie: Hamburger Hill
“We're Airborne. We don't start fights, we finish them!”
- From the movie: The Alamo
“- General Castrillon: Our twelve pound cannon arrives tomorrow. Why sacrifice our soldiers trying to take a wall that can be demolished?
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana: General Castrillon, what are the lives of soldiers but so many chickens?” - From the movie: Gods and Generals
“Just as we would not send any of our soldiers to march in other states, and tyrannize other people... so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our states and tyrannize our people.”
- From the movie: Desperate Journey
“- Major Otto Baumeister: You will find that in your position impertinence does not pay.
- Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: I didn't join up in this war to make money.” - From the movie: Rambo III
“- Mousa: You do not look like men Griggs sent before. You not look like you are with military.
- Rambo: I'm not.
- Mousa: What you are? Mercenary?
- Rambo: No.
- Mousa: You're not with military, not mercenary - what you are? Lost tourist?” - From the movie: Rustlers' Rhapsody
- From the movie: 300
- From the movie: U-571
“You hesitate. But as a captain, you can't. You have to act. If you don't, you put the entire crew at risk. Now that's the job. It's not a science. You have to be able to make hard decisions based on imperfect information. Asking men to carry out orders that may result in their deaths. And if you're wrong, you suffer the consequences. If you're...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Passage to Marseille
- From the movie: The Major and the Minor
“I think you underestimate us, Major Kirby. Perhaps all a woman wants is to be a photograph a soldier tacks above his bunk or a stupid lock of hair in the back of his watch.”
- From the movie: Saving Private Ryan
“- Captain Miller: Do you know how many men I've lost under my command?
- Sergeant Horvath: How many?
- Captain Miller: Ninety-four. But that means I've saved the lives of ten times that many, doesn't it? Maybe even 20, right? Twenty times as many? And that's how simple it is. That's how you... that's how you rationalize making the choice between...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Flags of Our Fathers
- From the movie: Enemy at the Gates
- From the movie: Jarhead
- From the movie: The Dogs of War
“Remember; you have to make it home to get paid.”
- From the movie: Dog Soldiers
- From the movie: Rambo: First Blood Part II
- From the movie: Southern Comfort
“We were supposed to meet the trucks 20 minutes ago. Another hour and a half the trucks will actually show up. Two o'clock they'll start asking around if anyone's seen us. At three they'll start checking the bars. At four they'll really get steamed. At five it will occur to someone that maybe we got lost. At six the captain will consider calling...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Extreme Prejudice
“- SSgt. Declan Patrick Coker: Fucked up. We were supposed to be there to cover the spic, we fucked up. Luther was a friend of mine.
- Sgt. Buck Atwater: He was a friend of mine, too, man. But he's dead. And that's the way it goes when you're a soldier. You just bite the damn bullet and move on.” - From the movie: Hart's War
“There's camp right outside Bacon, where I'm from and that's where the army sends the German POW's, picking cotton, what's strange every once and a while, we'd see them around town going to the movies, eating at diners, but if I wanted to go see the same movie I'd half to sit way up in the balcony, those diners were closed to me, even in uniform...” (continue)(continue reading)
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