Retired Army Quotes

#1. My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Jim Parrack

#2. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

Hugh Laurie

#3. From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#4. In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values.

Amanda Tero

#5. My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

Bruce Springsteen

#6. Literary pleasure, and a sense of recognition and identification, real though they are, burn off like alcohol in the flame of the next heated moment.

Gregory Maguire

#7. Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.

Mark Twain

#8. I felt tears welling up behind my eyes and tried to blink them back.

Norman Ollestad

#9. You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

Morrissey

#10. The controllists sometimes get angry when critics suggest that "state led" is a bit of a fabrication.

Glenn Beck

#11. People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Ratan Tata

#12. We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.

Katie McGarry

#13. I think we were trying to get off Combat from the moment we were on Combat.

Dave Mustaine

#14. The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

Ludwig Von Mises