Combat Veteran Quotes

#1. As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

Joni Ernst

#2. When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.

Mike Pence

#3. As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Tulsi Gabbard

#4. My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

Michael Hastings

#5. As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Charles B. Rangel

#6. There is never only one, of anyone

Margaret Atwood

#7. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#9. Truth be told, you gotta dance barefoot if you really want to feel the earth move.

Edward R. Hackemer

#10. I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

Kim Wilde

#11. We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. ANY VETERAN WHO HAS EXPERIENCED COMBAT WILL TELL YOU THAT WAR IS a terrible thing.

Michael S. Heiser

#14. I am classified as a disabled veteran. The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat to gunshot wounds, all that stuff.

Richard Carmona

#15. In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.

George Vecsey

#16. Him I delight in accepts joy as joy;
He is richened by sorrow as a river by its bends

Stephen Spender