Quotes of: Peace-corps Keyword

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.

Tiffany Madison

Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peac...

P. J. O'Rourke

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Jane Fonda

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

John M. McHugh

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

Adam Driver

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

Adam Driver

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

Susana Martinez

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Frederick W. Smith

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