Quotes About Sergeants

#1. 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

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

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

F. E. Adcock

#6. 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

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

Thomas Hughes

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

Terry Pratchett

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. And simple truth miscalled simplicity

William Shakespeare

#13. 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

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

T.K. Naliaka

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Kevin Costner

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

Jonathan Kozol

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

Michael Caine

#20. 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

#21. 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