Captain Miller: [weakly mutters something] Private Ryan: [leans in closer] What, sir? Captain Miller: James, earn this... earn it.
Captain Miller: James Francis Ryan of Iowa? Private Ryan: Yes, sir. Paton, Iowa, that's correct. What is this about? Captain Miller: Your brothers were killed in combat. Private Ryan: Which - Which ones? Captain Miller: All of them. [Ryan pauses in s...
Old James Ryan: [addressing Capt. Miller's grave] My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn't sure how I'd feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried...
Parker: [firing machine gun] I'm out of .30 Caliber! Private Jackson: [lining shots] Bleesed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to the war, and my fingers to fight. [fires rifle twice] Private Jackson: My goodness and my fortress... my h...
[Being told he can go home] Private Ryan: Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard. Captain Miller: Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag? Private Ryan: You ca...
[lining up a rifle shot] Private Jackson: My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust.
Private Reiben: I got a bad feeling about this one. Captain Miller: When was the last time you felt good about anything?
Captain Miller: You see, when... when you end up killing one your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others. Do you know how many men I've lost under my command? Serg...
Mellish: Fucked up beyond all recognition. Upham: FUBAR.
Sergeant Horvath: I don't know. Part of me thinks the kid's right. He asks what he's done to deserve this. He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But then another part of me thinks, what if by some miracle we stay, then actually ma...
Private Reiben: What's the saying? "If God's on our side, who the hell could be on theirs?" Upham: "If God is for us, who could be against us?" Private Reiben: Yeah, what'd I say?
Lieutenant Dewindt: FUBAR. Private Reiben: FUBAR. Sergeant Horvath: FUBAR. Captain Miller: FUBAR Private Jackson: Y'all got that right. Corporal Upham: I looked up "fubar" in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here.
Private Ryan: Picture a girl who took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Medic Wade: We stopped the bleeding! We stopped the bleeding! [a bullet hits the patient in the head] Medic Wade: Fuck! Just give us a fucking chance you son of a bitch! You son of a fucking cocksucker!
Captain Miller: I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.
Gen. George C. Marshall: I have a letter here, written a long time ago, to a Mrs. Bixby in Boston. So bear with me. "Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are th...
Captain Miller: He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.
Mellish: Fucked up beyond all recognition. Upham: [Thinks for a moment] FUBAR!
