Quotes About Brigadier

#1. Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

Richard Holmes

#2. The bemused Brigadier shook his head. You and that TARDIS.

Peter Grimwade

#3. Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Max Hastings

#4. When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

John Eisenhower

#5. On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Lee Child

#6. The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

Peter Grimwade

#7. The trouble with the scientific approach, thought the Brigadier, was that it left you at the mercy of your scientists.

Terrance Dicks

#8. No, sir. Now that his lordship is here, though, we can proceed. I'll tell Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; he's to chair the proceeding.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

Shaquille O'Neal

#10. I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.

Alvin C. York

#11. I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.

Malcolm Hulke

#13. From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father joined the army as a brigadier - the Biafran army. We were on the Biafran side.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#14. I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

#15. Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.

Yukiya Amano

#16. I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Bruce Braley

#17. I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Chris Martin

#18. Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Al Pacino

#19. Don't play his game. Play yours.

Rachel Caine

#20. The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

Ice Cube

#21. The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity,

Saint Augustine

#22. Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

#23. I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

Kevin Benderman

#24. My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

#25. By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin