Quotes About The Unknown Soldier

#1. Here's to the drunken Marine
With beer in his canteen!
You've heard of the Unknown Soldier
But, never an unknown Marine!

John Ripley

#2. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

John Milton

#3. I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Bob Mould

#4. But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him. (pg-265)

Richard Sennett

#5. Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating.

Lauren Groff

#6. Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

George Pickett

#7. To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

Charlie Munger

#9. Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

James Hansen

#10. People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.

Susanna Kearsley

#11. When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Joseph Joubert

#12. Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Allan Lokos

#13. If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

Ferdinand Lundberg

#14. Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.

Adolf Hitler

#15. Did you get anything back from him? What'd he say? Kill her? asked one of the attackers.
I love you. Dear Jesus. I love her. No. No.

Debra Anastasia

#16. I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

Garth Ennis