Quotes About Veterans Service

#1. I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

Eric Shinseki

#2. I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.

Hillary Clinton

#3. While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#4. Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

Al Franken

#5. Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

Paul Martin

#6. Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

Madeline Carroll

#7. One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.

Kari Martindale

#8. On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager to serve.

Thomas Perez

#9. The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

May Sarton

#10. I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Alan Ball

#11. Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading through your mind during meditation, you should be absorbed in the repetition of a mantra.

Frederick Lenz

#12. All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

Oliver North

#13. [Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Katherine Anne Porter

#14. I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

Jok Church

#15. It must be good to have somewhere that you belong. Somewhere that's home.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Our veterans know the meaning of service better than anyone else and they aren't about to quit working when they come home. The best reward we can provide our vets for their service isn't a medal or a check; it's a livelihood and a means of supporting themselves and their families.

Mitt Romney

#17. I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

Rick Riordan

#18. On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

Dan Lipinski

#19. When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time - that's being alive.

Arnold Palmer

#20. The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Ellen Gustafson

#21. Suicide is now the leading cause of death for US service members and veterans, far outstripping combat-related deaths.

Cara Hoffman

#22. Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.

Robert Aitken

#23. I don't know what I'm doing, or where I'm going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

J.A. Redmerski

#24. Where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.

Edward Gorey

#25. We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#26. The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.

Gough Whitlam

#27. We've found when soldiers help other soldiers, or military members of any service, it helps them, too.

Valerie Ormond

#28. We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

Russ Carnahan

#29. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.

Kingsley Amis

#30. With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

Olivia DeJonge