Kovic Quotes

#1. I was the biggest, most hopeless and most violent drunk in baseball.

Sam McDowell

#2. I have found life in you.'
'And I have found my heaven in you.' He told her.

Sara Naveed

#3. I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

Ron Kovic

#4. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Ron Kovic

#5. People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

Ron Kovic

#6. War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Ron Kovic

#7. Trace listened to the story, but how could he get excited? Francis had no powers that would let him re-create a brush with death - particularly in the atmosphere of a commuting train, journeying through a sunny countryside where already, in the slum gardens, there were signs of harvest.

John Cheever

#8. Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Dalai Lama

#9. If you're healthy all around, you'll feel better, and if you feel better, you'll have a more positive outlook. It's all connected.

Bridget Moynahan

#10. We've got to get in to get out.

Peter Gabriel

#11. If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

Ron Kovic

#13. Hush now, my dear one ... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one ... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake ...

Brandon Sanderson

#14. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

Ron Kovic