Marine Quotes

There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.

If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

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

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

General [James] Mattis's primary experience - indeed, his only experience - is as a member of the United States Marine Corps, where he served for 41 years. That's his experience.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

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

A Marine is never intimidated.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

You'd figure he'd go do something with his life, like maybe he could enlist and actually become a marine!

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon.

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

Who has created more peace in the world, the Peace Corps or the Marine Corps?

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

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

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

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

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

You can run but you can't hide

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.