Soldier Stories Quotes

#1. Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

James Taylor

#2. Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

Jethro Tull

#3. I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.

Burl Ives

#4. The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Vera Nazarian

#6. So here I was in the middle of the AI world-not just hanging out there but totally dependent on the people if I expected to have a job once I graduated-and yet, day by day, AI started to seem insane. This is also what I do: I get myself trapped inside of things that seem insane.

Philip E. Agre

#7. I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

Jessica Lynch

#8. Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.

Michael Anthony

#9. I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.

Trae Tha Truth

#10. But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching others, the artist tells himself that his creations are things of deathless beauty, the soldier tells himself he is on the side of the angels.

William Landay

#11. Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#12. Stories. One of them went regularly to a market in the neighboring village and helped himself to whatever he liked. He went in full uniform, breaking the earth with his boots, and no one dared touch him. It was said that if you touched a soldier, Government

Chinua Achebe

#13. It takes sweat to water the money tree. Don't pick the fruit from your neighbor's tree.

Harmon Sloan

#14. Whoever is missing in action turns
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling...

Simeon Dumdum Jr.