Frank Buckles Quotes

#1. We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

Frank Buckles

#2. Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

Frank Buckles

#4. An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

Frank Buckles

#5. I didn't lie; nobody calls me a liar, I may have increased my age.

Frank Buckles

#6. I'm probably a little too uninhibited.

Ben Barnes

#7. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Rodney Stark

#8. Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.

Frank Buckles

#9. When you start to die, don't.

Frank Buckles

#10. Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?

Frank Buckles

#11. I was gung-ho, no question about that.

Frank Buckles

#12. Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

Frank Buckles

#13. It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.

Steve Hagen

#14. If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.

Frank Buckles

#15. Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America.

Frank Buckles

#16. Zafar always put huge emphasis on his role as a protector of the Hindus and the moderator of Muslim demands. He never forgot the central importance of preserving the bond between his Hindu and Muslim subjects, which he always recognised was the central stitching that held his capital city together.

William Dalrymple

#17. He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.

Steven J. Lawson

#18. Here is your future ruler, King Evardo Fifteenth. He is fifteen years of age, has fifteen silver buckles on his jacket and is the fifteenth Evardo to rule the land of Ev. The people shouted their approval fifteen times,

L. Frank Baum

#19. I don't know anyone my age.

Frank Buckles

#20. The whole of him so much greater than the sum of his existence.

"The Sum of Man

Norah Pollard

#21. My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

Frank Buckles

#22. I had many different assignments and I was doing things that I thought were important ... no, I didn't either: I didn't think they were important. But I found out afterwards when I read up on my history that some of the things that I did were quite important.

Frank Buckles

#23. Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

Virginia Woolf