Quotes About The Military Child

#1. Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Euripides

#2. After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

Charley Pride

#3. He was listed as right-handed. The army needed to know that because bolt-action sniper rifles are made for right-handers. Left-handed soldiers don't usually get assigned as snipers. Pigeonholing starts on day one in the military.

Lee Child

#4. And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

#5. In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

#6. I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.'
'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!

Terry Goodkind

#7. It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of good work for me.

Lee Child

#8. For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Radclyffe Hall

#9. Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way ... Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

James Hillman

#10. My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

Ishmael Beah

#11. She always puts crisps in her sarnies.

Lesley Jones

#12. I had what I would consider a normal upbringing and, which to me, a normal American up - upbringing for an American male child almost gears you towards going into the military.

Peter P. Mahoney

#13. Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

Monica Johnson

#14. I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

Hugo Chavez

#15. There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.

Michel Faber

#16. I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

Lee Child

#17. Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.

Lee Child

#18. Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity ...

Albion Fellows Bacon

#19. Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.

Antoine Lavoisier

#20. The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Helen Foster Snow

#21. Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

David Ogilvy

#22. My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.

Arlen Specter

#23. Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be involved. They don't need to be involved in a military type of setting, they just need to get out and play and enjoy themselves and find it themselves.

Allyson Felix

#24. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

Ray Bradbury

#25. Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

#26. As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.

Shaquille O'Neal