In The Foxhole Quotes

#1. There are no atheists in the foxhole.

Ernie Pyle

#2. Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

Eric Kripke

#3. I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

Ed Asner

#4. He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.

Nora Sakavic

#5. At the Foxhole Court "family" was a fantasy invented to make books and Hollywood movies more interesting.

Nora Sakavic

#6. When you thought of permanent oblivion, temporary oblivion was the only foxhole you had.

Harry Turtledove

#7. Was he the kind of man you wanted next to you in a foxhole? - a saying used almost always by men who had never been in foxholes about other men who had never been in foxholes either.

David Halberstam

#8. My father served in Vietnam. When I was young he told me that everyone needs an emotional foxhole. A place to hide when life's storms hit.

Richard Paul Evans

#9. The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family.

Nora Sakavic

#10. Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation.

Warren Allen Smith

#11. This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got.

James R. Hannibal

#12. Moralistic, therapeutic deism is fine with sin hiding in a foxhole. The gospel wants to nuke the hole.

Matt Chandler

#13. I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.

Mark Kirk

#14. My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

George H. W. Bush

#15. When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

Louis Zamperini

#16. They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

William Westmoreland

#17. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil apart. Neil finally understood why his mother thought this was so dangerous.

Nora Sakavic

#18. Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?

Margaret Mitchell

#19. There's nothing harder than fighting alone, with no one to keep you company in your foxhole.

Greg Iles

#20. Old soldiers sometimes say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." (A foxhole, in military slang, is a shallow pit in a dangerous place on the battlefield.)

N. T. Wright

#21. I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.

Stephen Lang

#22. Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.

Eugene B. Sledge

#23. My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

Bill Mauldin

#24. You know the saying 'there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole?' Well, there's no such thing as a vegetarian in an apocalypse,

Steven Konkoly

#25. It's about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you.

Nora Sakavic

#26. Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

Patricia Hampl

#27. Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

Henry Pierson Crowe

#28. When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Lee Benson

#29. People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again ... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

Sylvester Stallone

#30. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

Bill Vaughan

#31. I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Mitch Albom