Sergeant Major Quotes

#1. The sergeant major

Erich Maria Remarque

#2. 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

#3. He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

Ford Madox Ford

#4. It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

E. M. Forster

#5. The mace prodded
Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

John Flanagan

#6. You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which ... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

John Newcombe

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

Theresa May

#8. Is it going to hurt?"
"You bet."
Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Sergeant Major," Arjun said quietly, "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Yur snorted. "Is that a fancy way of saying it's above my pay grade, sir?

Neal Stephenson

#10. Motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

Tim Kang

#13. God will never forsake you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.

Frederick Lenz

#15. For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

Ben Gibbard

#16. All the things I want to say, Seem to only come when I'm away. All

Bill Malone

#17. Intelligence is the daughter of wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

Don Young

#19. Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny.

Betty Smith

#20. There is nothing wrong with feeling cold in Alaska at -70 degrees. It's when you feel nothing at all that it times to panic

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