Family Military Quotes

#1. It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Alan Keyes

#2. My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

Shahin Najafi

#3. We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

John A. Lejeune

#4. I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.

Pink

#5. My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.

Roman Romanenko

#6. If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Emmitt Smith

#7. I believe as well that - that American strength is - is essential economic strength, family and value strength, military strength is essential for our own good that these things not only help secure peace for other people but preserve peace for us and - and promise greater prosperity for America.

Mitt Romney

#8. I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

Tom Brokaw

#9. His transgression may become their salvation.

Victoria Saccenti

#10. I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

George Papandreou

#11. Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

#12. Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth ... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life.

Cat Johnson

#13. I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

George W. Bush

#14. I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

Max Cannon

#15. I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

Wang Jianlin

#16. My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson

#17. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it; it's downright not fun at times. Sometimes I am mad at the military, at Uncle Sam, even at regular citizens who don't have a clue of the demands placed on our family.

Jen McDonald

#18. There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.

Melissa Seligman

#19. To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.

Amy Denise

#20. I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

Carolyn Murphy

#21. My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#22. I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

Olivia Munn

#23. Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

Lester Holt

#24. Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

David Bellavia

#25. The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

Kevin Powers

#26. I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

Olivia Munn

#27. First of all, I'm not a 'military type.' Second, I never proclaimed to be a gentleman of any kind. I just like the facts straight up. There's no bullshit to wade through to get to the truth." Dylan

Sara Walter Ellwood

#28. I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught at West Point-and I look at every military issue through that lens. What they say or think weighs heavily on my mind.

Tom Rooney

#29. The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.

Brian Whitman

#30. When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

Jim Webb

#31. There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps.

Phil Klay

#32. I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it.

Melissa Seligman

#33. I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.

Adelaide Clemens

#34. I write to get ideas out of my head

Bobbi Kay

#35. Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Camille Paglia

#36. The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

Tommy Franks

#37. I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

Ted Cruz

#38. And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

#39. In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

#40. The brew was military style "A" - freshly made and scalding, suitable for pouring down on peasants attacking the family castle.

Jeff Grubb

#41. My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

Ishmael Beah

#42. Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

Steve Buyer

#43. I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

Gal Gadot

#44. I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

RJ Mitte

#45. He made my mom call and tell Maureen I wouldn't be in to see her anymore. He said therapy is a waste of money. He also told her to upgrade the cable service and to order him a subscription to Military History magazine. The he went and bought a new fishing pole for Matt, who is dead.

Tracy Bilen

#46. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Henry V. O'Neil

#47. Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself ... I have very strong security.

Oleg Deripaska

#48. I come from a military family.

Brittany Murphy

#49. I decided I'd changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn't any particular place at all. Home was my family. Even if they didn't get my jokes sometimes.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#50. Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.

Ron Barber

#51. There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

Robert Lacey

#52. Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Camille Paglia

#53. The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

Antoine Fuqua

#54. Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.

Melissa Seligman

#55. Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is.

Melissa Seligman

#57. Brown pulled the bag closer to his side. He had nothing but good memories from his time overseas. That's the truth nobody knew. Since coming home he'd been labeled a baby-killer and a murderer, and things had been bad enough for him and his family when he went into the military.

Sheldon Lee Compton