Top 100 Quotes About The Marines
#1. Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.
Huey Morgan
#2. I kept my head down and my breathing steady. No idea why. I totally felt like a sniper in the marines. Only I was pregnant. Other than that, and the fact that I couldn't snipe if they'd paid me to, I embodied all that a sniper should be. Stealth. Grace. The patience of a panther on the prowl.
Darynda Jones
#3. They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
Thomas Holcomb
#4. With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.
David A. Freedman
#5. The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
Bruce Springsteen
#6. The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.
David Douglas Duncan
#7. I certainly found most of the Marines and soldiers I worked with to be top-notch. You had your exceptions - but then you have your exceptions in the Navy, too.
Chris Kyle
#8. Get off your butt and join the Marines!
John Wayne
#9. The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.
Renee Montagne
#10. Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
John J. Pershing
#11. Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong.
Argus Hamilton
#12. As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
Oliver North
#13. When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.
John F. Kerry
#14. The marines gave me an eternal discipline.
Huey Morgan
#15. We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.
Jeb Bush
#16. Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.
Regis Debray
#17. My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong
#18. So, Mr. Grady, how did you find yourself in the FBI?" ( ... )
Ty gave her a charming smile. "The Marines didn't want me, and it's hard to find a job where you can shoot things without getting arrested.
Abigail Roux
#19. Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
#20. Raiden deciding to serve our country and doing it by joining the baddest of the badasses, as everyone knew the Marines were.
Kristen Ashley
#21. From an early age I was aware of what America meant, and how the Marines at Camp Pendleton were ready to defend us at a moment's notice. I also remember what fabulous bodies those troops had.
Heather Locklear
#22. The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.
Drew Carey
#23. The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt
#24. Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.
Glenn Beck
#25. For the Marines, it validated their claim of "first to fight." They were the first Allied ground force to take the offensive against Axis forces in World War II, a point they still take pride in today.
Tom Clancy
#26. Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#27. Oh, for heaven's sake, Harper, I didn't just pee on the floor. My water broke.'
'What water?' He blinked, then went pale as a corpse. 'That water. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Oh, shit. Sit. Sit, or ... I'll get-'
An ambulance. The marines.
'My mother.
Nora Roberts
#28. I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?
Daniel Woodrell
#29. I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
Adam Driver
#30. Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
Yoshihiko Noda
#31. I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.
Huey Morgan
#32. I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
Winfield Scott
#33. I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur
#34. But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
Stuart Symington
#35. I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.
Steve McQueen
#36. Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines.
Eugene B. Sledge
#37. Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
Walter Scott
#38. My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.
Marv Levy
#40. The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#41. Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.
Ilona Andrews
#42. You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.
Bryan Fischer
#43. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.
Jay Johnstone
#44. I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
Oliver North
#45. Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her.
Katie McGarry
#46. Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
Al Capone
#47. After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
David Douglas Duncan
#48. It said, "Dad Calling," and his greeting was a shouted, "I didn't do two tours with the Marines only for my hometown to close down the library because of nudie boobies!
Kristen Ashley
#49. If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
Chuck Wepner
#50. I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
Hayden Fry
#51. The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.
Nathaniel Fick
#52. The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.
Daniel James Jr.
#53. The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
Drew Carey
#54. I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.
Dan Dailey
#55. He'd removed his helmet, revealing a babyish face that didn't go with his military haircut or his big burly frame. He looked like a toddler who'd taken steroids and joined the Marines.
Rick Riordan
#56. The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.
Gregory Alan Williams
#57. In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.
John Naisbitt
#58. And glad as I was to be in the States, and even though I hated the past seven months and the only thing that kept me going was the Marines I served with and the thought of coming home, I started feeling like I wanted to go back. Because fuck all this.
Phil Klay
#59. Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan
#60. The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.
Herbert F. Leary
#61. When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!
Tom Lehrer
#62. I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.
Daniel Woodrell
#63. When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.
George W. Bush
#64. I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.
Susan Davis
#65. Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
Margaret Thatcher
#66. If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.
Shane Smith
#67. Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
Drew Carey
#68. I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.
Gene Hackman
#69. My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
Jon Bon Jovi
#70. I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.
Robert Smith
#71. The Marines may have made me a man, but Grace made me human.
Jen Frederick
#72. But around the time Manila heaves into view, a warm breeze springs up over the deck and all of the Marines sigh, as if they have all ejaculated in unison.
Neal Stephenson
#73. I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
Phil Klay
#74. They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.
Tom Lehrer
#75. My parents were divorced and my dad was in the Marines. I lived in California until I was 10 then we moved to Bettendorf, Iowa when I was in the fourth grade. I had an older brother so it made it a little easier to adjust to things.
Robbie Lawler
#76. If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.
David Dixon Porter
#77. The difference between a regular Catholic education and a Jesuit education is the difference between the army and the marines.
Gary Reilly
#78. In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole.
George Carlin
#79. There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
Bud Grant
#80. Let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.
Theodore Roosevelt
#82. What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
Larry Elder
#84. Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place."
He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.
Nathaniel Fick
#85. The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.
Bernard Brodie
#86. If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.
Rebecca West
#87. I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.
RJ Mitte
#88. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
Sarah Palin
#89. Although I speak very highly of Marines, whether they are enlisted or officers, there always seems to be a statistical anomaly when it comes to the ratio of shitbags to non-shitbags everywhere in the world.
Jeffrey Sands
#90. I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
Jim Lehrer
#91. Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.
John J. Pershing
#92. The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#93. The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
Jim Lehrer
#94. We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
George S. Patton
#95. My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.
Jim Webb
#96. Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it.
Bruce H. Norton
#97. The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
George S. Patton Jr.
#98. I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
Hampton Sides
#99. Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.
Donald Trump
#100. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn
Tom Clancy
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