Quotes About Sergeants

#1. It's strictly constables, sergeants, and lunatics. We'll keep the kettle on for you.

Ben Aaronovitch

#2. Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.

Daniel Daly

#3. We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#4. Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants.

M.R. Carey

#6. You don't create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.

Julie Ann Dawson

#7. If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

T.K. Naliaka

#8. The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have laid the foundation and developed our quality corporals and sergeants.

Julius W. Gates

#9. Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure.

Tanya Huff

#10. Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Terry Pratchett

#11. No one knows how to do officering, Fred. That's why they're officers. If they knew anything, they'd be sergeants.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

F. E. Adcock

#13. I feel like I should have a formation and make the plantoon sergeants demonstrate how to put a condom on the correct way."

~Evan Loehr

Jessica Scott

#14. I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

Bill Mauldin

#15. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

John Amos Comenius

#16. He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

Alan Furst

#17. He had acquired all the composed and self-reliant look which is so remarkable in a good non-commissioned officer.

Thomas Hughes

#18. They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

Marlon James

#19. And simple truth miscalled simplicity

William Shakespeare

#20. I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

Kevin Costner

#21. Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

Michael Caine