Regimental Sergeant Quotes

#1. My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

Bob Ainsworth

#2. I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.

Theresa May

#3. It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Edward T. Welch

#4. We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#5. I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

Jamie Lawson

#6. The chief musician-a sergeant-led the twelve-nuan regimental band that provided entertainment as well as the music to which the army marched and fought.

Richard Bruce Winders

#7. He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and evenly, and this, he knew, was for him a minor sort of tragedy.

William Styron

#8. If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Robert E. Howard