The Marine Quotes

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
- Ronald Reagan

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S Truman

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.
- James F Amos

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.
- James F Amos

Judging by the hard lines of his face and the flat look in his eyes, he'd left the Marines, but the Corps hadn't quite left him.
- Ilona Andrews

I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.
- William Baldwin

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

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
where they were wont to do:
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.
- Georges Cuvier

I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.
- Susan Davis

Dad had this story. A Marine and a Navy guy walk into a bathroom together. They both take a piss, and then sailor goes to the sink. The Marine heads for the door, and the sailor says, 'Hey- in the Navy they teach us to wash up after we take a leak.' And the Marine turns around and says, 'Yeah? Well, in the Marines the...y teach us not to piss on our hands.' - Dean Winchester
- Keith R A Decandido

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
- R Lee Ermey

My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.
- Aimee Friedman

All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?"
"Why don't you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common
- Jeaniene Frost

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.
- Hayden Fry

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.
- Harvey Keitel

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan's photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped into his eyes. He grappled for the nearest bedpost and slumped forward on extended arms. His shoulders jerked and head sagged a little while his heart broke. Old Man cried the mute cry of men of his generation.
- Ed Lynskey

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
- Douglas Macarthur

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.
- Tiffany Madison

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
- William Manchester

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
- Wynton Marsalis

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
- Susana Martinez

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

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
- Chester W Nimitz

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
- Yoshihiko Noda

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
- Oliver North

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.
- Patrick O Brian

Oh, for heaven's sake, Harper, I didn't just pee on the floor. My water broke.'
'What water?' He blinked, then went pale as a corpse. 'That water. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Oh, shit. Sit. Sit, or... I'll get-'
An ambulance. The marines.
'My mother.
- Nora Roberts

So, Mr. Grady, how did you find yourself in the FBI?" (...)
Ty gave her a charming smile. "The Marines didn't want me, and it's hard to find a job where you can shoot things without getting arrested.
- Abigail Roux

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches
do the right thing, for the right reason
no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.
- Josh Rushing

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
- Carl Schurz

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
- Stuart Symington

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
- Lee Trevino

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

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
- Leon Uris

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
- John Wayne

You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back.
- Evan Wright