Quotes of: Cavalry Keyword

I watched a moment longer, studying the terrain and the scuffed earth beyond the bluffs, and then, more softly, said, ‘Tears, signal to Lupus. Ask for cavalry.’ We had cavalry...by heaven, did we have cavalry.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Letty: Did you bring the cavalry? Hobbs: Woman, I am the cavalry.

Furious Seven

[first lines] Cavalry scout: These hills here are full of Apaches. They've burnt every ranch building in sight. [referring to Indian scout] Cavalry scout: He had a brush with them last night. Says they're being stirred up by Geronimo. Capt. Sickel: G...

Stagecoach

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory

[Maximus is about to ride out with the cavalry to fight the barbarians] Quintus: Soldier! I told you to move those catapults forward. They're out of range. Maximus: Range is good. Quintus: The danger to the cavalry... Maximus: Is acceptable. Agreed?

Gladiator

[addressing his troops] Maximus: Fratres! [Cavalry addresses Maximus] Maximus: Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the g...

Gladiator

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The w...

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Tuco: [thinking the cavalry they've met are Confederate] Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... what's his name? Blondie: Lee. Tuco: Lee! LEE! Ha ha! God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. H...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Giraldus Cambrensis

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

George Armstrong Custer

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

James Monroe

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Andy Grove

Vincent: [after the nightclub shootout] Only thing that didn't show up is the Polish cavalry.

Collateral

Molly Brown: Why do they insist on announcing dinner like a damned cavalry charge?

Titanic

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

Domhnall Gleeson

[points towards the fleeing cavalry] Reverend Otto Witt: The way of the Lord has been shown to us!

Zulu

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

Rick Atkinson

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Philip Gibbs

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

John Buford