Trenches Quotes

Trenches Quote of the day

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.