Top Marine Quotes Collection
Discover a curated collection of Marine quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.
It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did.. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die.Collection: Marine
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.Collection: Marine
It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.Collection: Marine
Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operationCollection: Marine
I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.Collection: Marine
Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.Collection: Marine
I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.Collection: Marine
We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.Collection: Marine
And once by God, I was a Marine!Collection: Marine
A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.Collection: Marine
Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.Collection: Marine
The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.Collection: Marine
I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.Collection: Marine
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.Collection: Marine
A Marine is never intimidated.Collection: Marine
The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.Collection: Marine
Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.Collection: Marine
So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!Collection: Marine
I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - but considering the fact that I've always loved acting and the theater, I don't think I ever gave anything else much of a chance.Collection: Marine
The future success of the Marine Corps depends on two factors: first, an efficient performance of all duties to which its officers and men may be assigned; second, promptly bringing this efficiency to the attention of the proper officials of the government, and the American people.Collection: Marine
Fleets cannot operate without bases.Collection: Marine
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.Collection: Marine
I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.Collection: Marine
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet.Collection: Marine
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.Collection: Marine
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.Collection: Marine
With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges.Collection: Marine
I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.Collection: Marine
Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.Collection: Marine
The marines gave me an eternal discipline.Collection: Marine
Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.Collection: Marine
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.Collection: Marine
It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.Collection: Marine
Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.Collection: Marine
It would take one million men, one hundred yearsCollection: Marine
The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.Collection: Marine
I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this."Collection: Marine
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.Collection: Marine
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.Collection: Marine
The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."Collection: Marine
Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after FlipperCollection: Marine
Any officer can get by on his sergeants. To be a sergeant you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer.Collection: Marine
Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.Collection: Marine
Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special duty. Though their duties were more arduous than those of others, they were always prompt and ready for performance of all they were called upon to do. As a body they would be a credit to any organization, and I will be glad to be associated with them on duty at any time.Collection: Marine
We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.Collection: Marine
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.Collection: Marine
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.Collection: Marine
Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.Collection: Marine