Quotes About Infantryman

#1. Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

Bill Mauldin

#2. A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Behan

#3. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.

Steven Pressfield

#4. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and safety, issue exhortations to men in the front line.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.

Mark Helprin

#6. A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

James Wyllie

#7. Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

Viktor Suvorov

#8. What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?

George Grosz

#9. Pray use both cats as sponges if it pleases you, infatuated infantryman.

Diana Wynne Jones

#10. An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

Adam Fenner

#11. An average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended.

Lee Child

#12. Go fuck yourself, Teague," Marshall said. "If you were a real infantryman, you'd have already commanded instead of hiding out on the staff."
"Maybe there are limits to how many hairy asses I'll kiss to make major. Feel free to continue for the both of us, though," Teague said.

Jessica Scott

#13. An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

Michel Gondry

#16. Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

John Maynard Keynes

#17. I can quite understand that many people may be depressed by the spectacle of naked humanity. Personally I cannot see that an ugly body is any more offensive than an ugly dress.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

Cristela Alonzo

#19. You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.

Julieanne O'Connor

#20. Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.

Joe Eszterhas

#21. Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

Dr. Seuss

#23. Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

William Gibson

#24. dentition and witch-like pointed features.

Priscilla Masters

#25. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass
the earth
into the second
eternity.

Margaret George

#26. It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Marvin Traub