First Sergeant Quotes

#1. PEACETIME BY LUKE MOGELSON I was living in the armory on Lexington Avenue. First Sergeant Diaz had given me the keys.

Anonymous

#2. ANDERSONVILLE DIARY JOHN H. RANSOM, LATE FIRST SERGEANT NINTH MICH. CAV., AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER, 1881

John L. Ransom

#3. In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

#4. I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!

Terry Pratchett

#5. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

Paul Newman

#6. My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Clint Eastwood

#7. Sergeant Paul Ramoneda, a twenty-eight-year-old baker with the Ninth Food Service Squadron, was one of the first to reach the bomber.

Eric Schlosser

#8. The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

John Sergeant Wise

#9. Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

Andy Rooney

#10. Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.

Marlon James

#11. Parks joins her and they continue to boggle in unison. "Any idea?" the sergeant asks at last. Justineau shakes her head. "You?" "I prefer to look at all the evidence first. Then I get someone smarter than I am to explain it to me." They

M.R. Carey

#12. Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

Jeff Lindsay

#13. Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.

Mireille Guiliano

#14. Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

Carrie Underwood

#16. I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

Joss Whedon

#17. I've been keeping in stuff worse than that for more than twenty years."
- what the serial killer said to me. Based the antagonist in my novel on him. He's dead now.

Kristi Belcamino

#18. In romance, I can't stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom - and then automatically finds him attractive. I'm sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I'd be reaching for a weapon - not admiring the view.

Kristin Nelson

#19. It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Horace

#20. Sheep wish no taste but woolly sweet conformity.

Kevin Focke

#21. It was just right to be all by myself. Nobody to bother about.

Devanshi Gupta

#22. Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

Barack Obama

#23. George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

Dav Pilkey

#24. I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

John Sergeant Wise

#25. When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

John Sergeant Wise

#26. He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Thomas Hardy

#27. I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Harrison Birtwistle

#28. When I find the guy who torched that forest, I'm going to eat him. And I'm only going to half-cook him first.
-Sergeant Schlock

Howard Tayler

#29. Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck