Quotes About Usmc

#1. Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032

L. Douglas Hogan

#2. My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named after him, so I always thought about him and wearing the uniform. The JAG Corps gave me that opportunity after law school.

Tom Rooney

#3. Pvt. Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is what counts!"
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman USMC

Matthew Modine

#4. I'm in battle mode. Shut down. Hard. I'm not Hunter anymore. I'm Lance Corporal Lee, USMC. Semper Fi, bitches.

Jasinda Wilder

#5. Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds.

Neal Stephenson

#6. Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" - USMC, unofficial

U.S. Marine Corps

#7. I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

Dan Dailey

#8. It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

Jules Renard

#9. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

Chris Kyle

#10. In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
- do the right thing, for the right reason
- no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

Josh Rushing

#11. It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war.

Michael Martinez

#12. The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.

Alexander Vandegrift

#13. When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out before the Democrats make it mandatory.

Sgt. Harry Berres, USMC

#14. Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I'm fed up with being bossed around.

David Hockney

#16. Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

Gregory Boyington

#17. It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

Woodrow Wilson

#18. Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

Karl Pilkington

#19. I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.

Jonathan Winters

#20. A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

David Dixon Porter

#21. The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Adam Savage

#22. I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.

Leigh Bingham Nash

#23. National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

Wallace Stegner

#24. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Meher Baba

#25. Then, as now, it was just uncomfortable. Now, as then, it was a lifted chin and a crooked smile that said more than they would ever allow themselves to communicate.

Sandi Layne

#26. He couldn't help but wonder what Hannah might have looked like if ... he'd answered that question April had asked him years ago.

Sandi Layne

#27. Take your time.
Stay away from the easy going.
Never take the same way twice.
Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942

GYSGT Charles C. Arndt

#28. Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Phillips Brooks

#29. Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

Alfred M. Gray

#30. The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

Wesley Clark

#31. Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

Dag Hammarskjold

#32. It requires all my philosophy, and all my piety' to make peace ...

Sarah Vowell

#33. I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

Kina Grannis

#34. We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Chesty Puller

#35. My first thought is to tell him to take his "help" and shove it so far between his [butt] cheeks he'll waddle down the road - I stopped speaking like a princess the day I began training as a warrior - but I bite my lip.

Stacey Jay

#36. I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

Edward Johnson

#37. So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Chesty Puller

#38. Great Marine commanders, like all great warriors, are able to kill that which they love most -- their men.

Nathaniel Fick

#39. Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

Ernst Otto Fischer

#40. I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness.

Roz Chast