Green Beret Quotes

#1. We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Normalcy...what a strange word. Its definition can be changed so completely by one phone call...

Diana Mankin Phelps

#3. Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
But at our parting, we will be, as when
We innocently met.

Ben Jonson

#4. Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the Green Beret. According to the Tralfamadorians, of course, the Green Beret would have seven parents in all.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.

Ice-T

#6. My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.

Bubba Watson

#7. The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

John Jewel

#8. Stand firm as surefooted as deer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.

Rachel Caine

#10. 'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

John F. Kennedy

#11. She said love was useless, because it led you into dumb exchanges in which you gave too much away, and then you got bitter and mean.

Margaret Atwood

#12. I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

Hilarie Burton