Foot Soldier Quotes

#1. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

Henry Rollins

#2. To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

Daniel Pipes

#3. Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Ian McKellen

#6. It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Saul Bellow

#7. For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

Tim O'Brien

#8. I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree
aren't you?
Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

Karen Traviss

#9. I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

Tucker Carlson

#10. No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Sidney Hook

#11. I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Benicio Del Toro

#12. I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Vikas Swarup

#13. I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Alexander The Great

#14. I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like.

Will Rogers

#15. No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Shirin Ebadi

#16. Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

Walter Lippmann

#17. The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

Hideki Tojo

#18. Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great.

Chuck Klosterman

#19. Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.

Michelle M. Pillow

#20. Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

Tucker Carlson

#21. But somewhere, deep within her, she knew that if she opened up to this man, it would be the most dangerous thing she ever did. He made her want to believe that she could share her burdens. When the truth was that she was alone. And she always would be.

Sarah MacLean

#22. Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

George Herbert

#23. We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Mahatma Gandhi