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Soldiers Quotes (page 11)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like..."
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Heinrich Heine quote: "The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the..."
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. Heinrich Heine
The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep. Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life. Loses, loses: I have killed for my world, and am free. Randall Jarrell
She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward for a soldier. Bernard Cornwell
Tupac Shakur quote: "As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal"
As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal Tupac Shakur
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Thomas Paine
I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream. Haruki Murakami
WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, onthe turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feeblenesschasing, Fulfilling... Walt Whitman
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! J. R. R. Tolkien
And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends. Stephen Crane
John Mortimer quote: "I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned."
I sent out words like soldiers to battle and they never returned. John Mortimer
When I was a child, my mother said: "If you will be a priest, you will be pope; if you become a soldier, you will be a general." Instead, I became an artist, and so became Picasso. Pablo Picasso
People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys through the dark woods and the kindness of strangers treated decently, the knowledge that can be gained from the company and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots and steadfast tin soldiers. I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons, but more subtle ones. The kind that seep up from your... Charles de Lint
Though if infidels were to be converted by force, if those that are either blind or obstinate were to be drawn off from their errors by armed soldiers, we know very well that it was much more easy for Him to do it with armies of heavenly legions than for any son of the Church, how potent soever, with all his dragoons. John Locke
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians—I will not speak of my own trade—soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not... Jonathan Swift

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