Quotes About Old Warriors

#1. Some fall in glorious ways. One green fields of battle as old warriors, surrounded by friends, fighting for their homes, fighting cruelty.

Some fall crawling in the dirt of Forrestville, Tennessee, in the dark, impossibly young and alone, for no good reason at all.

Jeff Zentner

#2. How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings
honors, treasures, beautiful women
accessible even to cowards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

Robert Ferrigno

#5. If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Richard Allen Epstein

#6. All cats old enough to catch thier own prey,gather here under the High Rock for a clan meeting!

Erin Hunter

#7. Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening

Jean G. Boulton

#8. He grins to himself as he thinks of his little cabal, this great band of warriors consisting of an old woman, a passion-struck fool, and a man with a feeble mind. At least they've all got the loyalty part right.

T.J. Klune

#9. Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

Greg Bear

#10. I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.

Maria Semple

#11. How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

Jodi Picoult

#12. Bobbie ignored the macho posturing. Everyone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their own way. Bobbie preferred obsessive list making. But flexing and threats were good too.

James S.A. Corey

#13. But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before.

Cheese and people are not the same.

Kit Alloway

#14. Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#15. In times of war, you often hear leaders - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - saying, 'God is on our side.' But that isn't true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

Greg Mortenson

#16. I will not apologize for my warriors crossing the border that seperates our Clans. But if you can find a way to keep us alive without stealing prey, I will listen. For the sake of old times.

Victoria Holmes

#17. Rare is he who will concede genius.

Juana Ines De La Cruz

#18. Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

Bokeem Woodbine