In The Foxholes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Whatever you want, love, I'll give to you even if it means I'm made to crawl through foxholes and bodies and bullets to do it. You are the reason I fight this war. You are the victory that waits me on the other side of the gunpowder.

Eden Butler

#4. There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

Paul Krugman

#5. 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

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

James R. Hannibal

#7. There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#8. Second chances don't come cheap.

Chris Cole

#9. They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I say there are no atheists when you're begging God to keep alive the person you love.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#10. No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy

#11. There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan.

George Carlin

#12. 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

#13. This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Victor Hugo

#15. With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.

Talib Kweli

#16. There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

Mickey Cohen

#18. 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

#19. Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

Laozi

#20. That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

George W. Bush

#21. We don't pray in foxholes because we are ready to meet our Maker. We pray because we don't want to.

Harlan Coben

#22. 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

#23. People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. We ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Kathryn Stockett

#25. It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

Edward Abbey

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

Patricia Hampl

#27. I struggled for something to cling to, the way soldiers in foxholes picture their families, or a flag.
My car, I thought crazily. This fucker crashed the Wongmobile. And for that, he must taste death.

David Wong

#28. Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!

An Na

#29. Like being able to hold the clear, pure essence of the very world itself in within your hands, and then take it in with one long swallow.

Cameron Dokey

#30. The difference between a writer who toughs it out and one who doesn't is that you push through the parts where you know that you've just written seven pages when all you're looking for is one paragraph.

Anne Lamott

#31. With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Dinesh D'Souza

#32. If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

Jerry Della Femina

#33. There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

James K. Morrow

#34. 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

#35. Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

Maisie Williams

#36. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

George S. Patton