Military Academy Quotes

#1. He'd had Magnus Bane - a warlock with cat eyes; Simon actually knew a warlock with actual cat eyes - fake papers to convince her that he had a scholarship to this fictitious military academy.

Anonymous

#2. I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.

Adam Rapp

#3. When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

Adam Rapp

#4. Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#5. It was now the fall of 1956, and nine years after entering Georgia Military Academy as a scrawny "Yankee" from Ohio, I was now considered a "southerner," enrolling at one of the North's most elite institutions.

Ted Turner

#6. How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

Douglas Adams

#7. My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.

Roman Romanenko

#8. He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

Chris Cannon

#11. One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Quentin Crisp

#12. It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.

Stella Maeve

#13. After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.

Allan Gurganus

#14. I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

Kit Reed

#15. It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

#16. There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am ... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

Mike Pompeo

#17. Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.

George Herbert

#18. VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

Nathaniel Fick

#19. For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

Roland Smith