Top 17 Ron Kovic Quotes
#1. I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
Ron Kovic
#2. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
Ron Kovic
#3. People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.
Ron Kovic
#4. Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#5. War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.
Ron Kovic
#6. We can't pick our families or where we come from, Jet. All we can choose is who we want to become in spite of them, and because of them.
Jay Crownover
#7. My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.
James Cagney
#8. libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
Fulton J. Sheen
#9. I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.
Gin Wigmore
#10. Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.
Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
#11. I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine system. I do miss the 3 A.M. writing jags.
Douglas Coupland
#12. I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.
Ron Kovic
#13. You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo
#16. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.
Ron Kovic
#17. Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.
Linda Hirshman
