
Top 19 Anthony Swofford Quotes
#1. Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past ... We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
William Deane
#2. In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
Richard Louv
#3. ...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.
Delfi Messinger
#4. Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
Mario Teguh
#6. Was your old man in the war?"
"He was in the air force. He built runways."
"The fucking air farce. He ever tell you about it? Did he live?"
"Yes, he lived. He spoke once about Vietnam."
"If he only spoke about it once, he wasn't lying.
Anthony Swofford
#7. It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.
Pratik Akkawar
#9. A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.
Anthony Swofford
#10. Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
Bobby Flay
#11. Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.
Lee Thomas
#12. I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those guys upon return. We have to make some kind of an attempt to understand what their life is like.
Anthony Swofford
#13. If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.
Anthony Swofford
#14. Some wars are unavoidable and need well be fought, but this doesn't erase warfare's waste. Sorry, we must say to the mothers whose son's die horribly. This will never end. Sorry.
Anthony Swofford
#15. Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#17. My combat action has commenced ... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
Anthony Swofford
#19. It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.
Anthony Swofford
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