Enlisted Men Quotes

#1. Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

Thomas Sowell

#2. I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlisted men? It's Lady GLINDA!" She was losing it, big time. "Get me Murth!

Gregory Maguire

#3. Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

Chester W. Nimitz

#4. More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Harold Bloom

#5. Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached them, you knew they would disappear bit by bit until the only thing left was a memory.

Kathryn Miller Haines

#6. The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

Amy Lane

#7. You must seek to thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.

Dennis Quaid

#9. I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

Betty Grable

#10. In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#11. One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!

Carlos Wallace

#12. Any belief worth believing in, should be willing to be tested.

Alexander Fontana

#13. It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

#14. An estimated 400 women disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Many were like Amy Clarke, who enlisted so she could remain with her husband when he joined the Confederate Army. Amy continued to fight after he was killed, and she was wounded herself and taken prisoner.

Gail Collins

#15. Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.

The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.

John N. Gray

#16. An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.

Anthony Burgess

#17. There is no shame in falling," Pernicar said, standing up. "There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again.

Drew Karpyshyn

#18. I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

#19. Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

Patrick MacGill