Quotes About Iwo Jima

#1. Writing catchy pop songs is a super-minor superpower, but it's mine.

J.C. Lillis

#2. I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

#3. With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

Ken Watanabe

#4. There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.

Brody Jenner

#5. I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

Lynn Coady

#6. See you on the other side, kid.

Ashton Kutcher

#7. The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Clint Eastwood

#8. Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.

John C. Wright

#9. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

Chester W. Nimitz

#10. My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

Jason Mraz

#12. I suddenly had to chase after my pictures ... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.

Rene Burri

#13. No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Chester W. Nimitz

#14. I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

J. B. Smoove

#15. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

James D. Bradley

#16. We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

Eartha Kitt

#17. We will survive. I promise.

James Dashner

#18. Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz