Quotes of: Corps Keyword

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

Ralph Peters

Private Joker: [narrating] Graduation is only a few days away, and the recruits of Platoon 3092 are salty. They are ready to eat their own guts and ask for seconds. The drill instructors are proud to see that we are growing beyond their control. The ...

Full Metal Jacket

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

A Rumor Of War

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

Lee Trevino

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Robert Kiyosaki

Brendan Conlon: That's Tess. And that's Emily and Rosie. They're your nieces, Tommy. Tom Conlon: Don't know 'em. Brendan Conlon: I know you don't know them. Of course you don't know them. Tom Conlon: Why am I looking at pictures of people I don't kno...

Warrior

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

R. Lee Ermey

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Karl Marlantes

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Leon Askin

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

Leon Uris

At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.

Adam Driver

I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

Jim Webb

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Frederick W. Smith

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

James F. Amos

Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

James F. Amos

The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers, uncles, and brothers.

Hurricane Ginger

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

William Manchester

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.

Paul Theroux

Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l'esprit et le corps recule devant l'anéantissement. Nous prenons l'habitude de vivre avant d'acquérir celle de penser.

The Myth of Sisyphus

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

Ron Kind

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Leon Uris