Quotes About Foxholes

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

Harlan Coben

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

George Carlin

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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

James R. Hannibal

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

James K. Morrow

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Paul Krugman

#20. Nothing has changed, except everything.

David Mitchell

#21. I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.

Brunello Cucinelli

#22. Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

Kathy Griffin

#23. 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

#24. A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Victor Hugo

#26. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.

Bruce Schneier

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.

Frederick Lenz

#29. He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

Umberto Eco

#30. You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.

Benicio Del Toro

#31. I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

Syleena Johnson

#32. I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Vanessa Hudgens

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

Patricia Hampl

#34. My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

Bre Pettis

#35. We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.

Lauren Oliver

#36. But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#37. In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say "Yes" and hand me a chicken leg, or "No" and slap me with an old fish.

Rob Delaney

#38. 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