Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman. - Rick Riordan Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay. - Rick Riordan It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end. - Immanuel Kant In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicl...

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 I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. - Scott Ritter

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 I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country. - Scott Ritter

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 ...

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. - Robert Kiyosaki Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. - Mark Kelly 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. - Joseph C Lincoln 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. - Douglass North

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 There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. - 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 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 You know, I ...

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 There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps. - 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 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 You know, I ...

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. - Willie Aames If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. - Nicolas Cage I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist. - January Jones 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. - Kristin Kreuk