1,014 Quotes About Army

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.

You were never in Texas,” she says.He remembers the house on that strange treeless residential street, the green night growing up from the prairie, the flowers in the window, and says, “Absolutely I was.”“Doing what?”“Serving Uncle.”“Oh, in the Army; well that doesn’t count. Everybody’s been to Texas with the Army.”“You order whatever you think is good,” Rabbit tells Tothero.

My heart is full and my weapon is clean.

The second building was enormous. Its central corridor looked long enough to stage a hundred-yard-dash in. I contemplated making one. Ever since the Army, big institutions depressed me: channels, red tape, protocol, buck-passing, hurry up and wait. Only now and then you met a man with enough gumption to keep the big machine from bogging down of its own weight.

We’re going to need a bigger army,” I said.

- У нас всегда говорили, что надо непременно разоружаться, но разве можно уничтожать армию? Это последнее прибежище мужества в наше время повсеместного падения нравов.(Тётя Вайна - Ивану)

I feel like so much has been left undone. There are friends I won't see before I leave, there are bills I still need to pay. I haven't written as much as I've wanted, and there are countless things I've said that I wish I could correct, but this is a process that will never end. When my grandmother died she left a library full of books she never finished reading. This is how I feel now.