63 Quotes About Marines


  • Author Karl Marlantes
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    The kids filed quietly to the edge of the strip to wait for the helicopters. Other Marines stopped to watch them, wanting to say an encouraging word yet not daring to break into their private world — a world no longer shared with ordinary people. Some of them were experiencing the last hour of that brief mystery called life.

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  • Author Victoria Vane
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    A good man is a whole lot more satisfying than a thermal blanket and a vibrator.""Grams! I can't believe you just said that!"Her grandmother replied with a win. "I may be old, sweetheart, but I'm not dead yet.

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  • Author Nathaniel Fick
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    Hardness," I was learning, was the supreme virtue among recon Marines. The greatest compliment one could pay to another was to say he was hard. Hardness wasn't toughness, nor was it courage, although both were part of it. Hardness was the ability to face an overwhelming situation with aplomb, smile calmly at it, and then triumph through sheer professional pride.

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  • Author Nathaniel Fick
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    Your job is to be the hardest motherfucker in your platoon," he said while pointing at me across the desk. "Do that, and everything else will fall into place."He added that I was assigned to Bravo Company, call sign Hitman, and wished me luck.

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  • Author Ronald Reagan
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    Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem.

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  • Author Chris Kyle
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    In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.

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