Western Front Quotes

#1. If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Kelly Miller

#3. The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

Ann Widdecombe

#4. All Quiet on the Western Front,

Mark Kurlansky

#5. The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.

Ronald Reagan

#6. We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

Erich Maria Remarque

#7. Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. The Government wants to give young people from every community the chance to learn about the heroism and sacrifice of our great-grandparents, which is why we are organising visits to the battlefields of the Western Front.

Michael Gove

#9. The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

Mark Steyn

#10. My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.

Tom Hanks

#11. School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

Antony Beevor

#12. It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

Matthew Stover

#13. We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

Erich Maria Remarque

#14. There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

Matt Gallagher

#15. Brick stood silhouetted against the frozen lake through this front window. "Be careful. It sounds like you've got at least one killer out there. Someone who thought they'd gotten away with murder. It's easier to kill after the first time, they say.

B. J. Daniels

#16. The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them ...

Enrich M. Remarque

#17. Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?

T. S. Eliot

#18. And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

Erich Maria Remarque

#19. Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine I'm talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for your loss?

Barry Webster

#20. Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.

Annie Dillard

#21. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#22. I don't guarantee you to be a good man,
I promise you will be a better man

Unknown

#23. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. Howdy, ma'am. You always talk to yourself?
Velia glanced up into bright eyes, as blue as the flame on a cigarette lighter, belonging to a man standing in front of her desk wearing a cowboy hat tipped back on his head.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#25. Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life
but may be a penetration into reality ... as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.

Henry Moore

#26. He has to be tall, very tall and dark, and broad-shouldered, and narrow-hipped.

Kristen Ashley

#27. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.

Cheryl Strayed

#28. You learn how to persevere ... to have discipline, you learn to lose, you learn to win, you learn how to not quit.

Ricardo Liborio

#29. You know, you don't see with your eyes
You see with your brain
And the more words your brain has
The more things you can see

KRS-One

#30. You - my life - my All - farewell.
Oh, go on loving me - never doubt
the faithfullest heart
Of your beloved
L
Ever thine
Ever mine
Ever ours.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#31. Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

Friedrich Paulus

#32. Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

#33. A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

Erich Maria Remarque

#34. Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

#35. All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.

Erich Maria Remarque

#36. Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.

Tamara Hoffa

#37. They stick you with those names, those labels -- 'rebel' or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

Johnny Depp

#38. And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

Erich Maria Remarque

#39. A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.

Erich Maria Remarque

#40. Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

Paul Lynde

#41. I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

Joseph Conrad