Love Vietnam Quotes

#1. I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

Martin Luther

#2. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Billie Jean King

#3. The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

#4. I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

Gary Busey

#5. I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Francis Ford Coppola

#6. The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Richard Dawkins

#7. I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

John Pilger

#8. Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.

Alan Freed

#9. The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

Ronald Reagan

#10. Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

Paul Harvey

#11. I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

Bob Casey Jr.

#12. I hate being told I can't do something because I'm a girl!

Thanhha Lai

#13. Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!

Denis Leary

#14. I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

Lucrecia Martel

#16. For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

Tim O'Brien

#17. I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Glenn Frey

#18. I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

Cameron Diaz

#19. All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

Sarah Hall

#20. In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

Sun Tzu

#21. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Jane Smiley

#22. Security isn't just a feature, it's a base, it's a fundamental, right.

Tim Cook

#23. You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

Nicholas Proffitt

#24. Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

Rick DeStefanis