Quotes About General Patton

#1. My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

Don Rickles

#2. My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jerry Hall

#3. General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, "Seventh Army didn't cause that destruction, did it, sir?" The man replied, "No sir, that happened in the last war." "What war was that?" "The Second Punic War."5

Robert M. Edsel

#4. Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.

Ayelet Waldman

#5. For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

Zakk Wylde

#6. Martin Van Buren was a shitty guy. Not just because he was a bad president, and not just because he was pro-slavery. Van Buren was shitty in a very general sort of way. And with all that that implies.

Daniel O'Brien

#7. General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Victor Davis Hanson

#8. Maybe you don't need to be a complete person, or maybe you do. But maybe, he's it. Maybe he's the other half of you.

Jay McLean

#9. We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Frithjof Schuon

#10. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton

Gary Keller

#11. When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?

Andrei Cherny

#12. Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

David Lean

#13. Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#14. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)

Thad Forester

#15. I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

Paul Merton

#16. Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

Bobby Jindal

#17. I stared at him in silence. There were so many things I wanted to say. Like, How could you think what I feel for you is only physical? or, Don't you know you're my best friend? and finally, Bones, I love-

Jeaniene Frost

#18. The lies kinky people tell vanilla people.

Tiffany Reisz

#19. I'm about to rupture something, he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

Karen Chance

#20. Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

Simon Sinek

#21. All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,

Charles James

#22. God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton

Scott Middlemist