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“When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.”

Needs Country Behinds Citizens Promise Commitment Soldier Vietnam Veteran Marine Our Veterans

Author:John F. Kerry

“The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.”

Should Issues Japan Disputes Marine Ongoing Implications Okinawa

Author:Ed Royce

“I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people.”

“Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.”

Action Together Voice Powerful Exercise Training Stronger Ships Sensitive Navy Marine Our Actions Migration Habitat Mammals Synergy Together We Can

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”

Ifs School Film Law Brother Anxiety My Brother Serving Vietnam Graduates Execution Marine Attending Law School Graduate School

Author:Peter Guber

“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”

Numbers Ocean South Indian Passages Marine Horns Sailor Capes Weathered

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.”

Marine Aqua

Author:Don Van Vliet

“A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.”

Knows Existence Pride Foundation Structure Lays Accomplishment Judged Marine Bedrock

Author:Zell Miller

“I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.”

Knows Self Sometimes Certain Principles Teach Military Marine Marine Corps Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Basic Principles Military Life

Author:Raymond Kelly

“When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!”

Firsts War Moving Peace Marine Make A Move

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation”

Want May Operations Pens Want Me Marine

Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen

“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.”

World Sea Foundation Species Spots Marine Spectacular Exquisite Reefs Marine Life Coral Reefs

Author:Sheherazade Goldsmith

“Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.”

Jobs Nations Can Do Flexibility Marine Adaptability Marine Corps

Author:James F. Amos

“I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.”

Knows Hard Done Saws Pride Guilt Brave Deeds Insight Combination Maturity Hard Times Medal Marine

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

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

Deals Teach Taught Killing Marine Marine Corps

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

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

Responsible Safety Combat Officers Marine

Author:Oliver North

“Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.”

Happenings Islamic Marine Pirate

Author:Glenn Beck

“Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces - usually the Marines - invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To 'restore order' the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted 'pacification.'”

“If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.”

Ifs Play School High School Musical Marine High School Musical

Author:Zac Efron

“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.”

“God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.”

War Hard Play Games Fear Marine

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.”

Trying Important Wanted Young Passion Felt Issues Mines Seasons Active Fascinated Marine Vocal Environmentalist Biologist Great Passion Off Season Marine Biologist

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

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

Men Country Body Marine Deserving Legislature Seamen

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.”

People Religious Company Groups Human Nature College Garden Clubs Executives Combat Elites Committees Competing Marine Sects Fraternity Collectivity Religious Sects

Author:E. O. Wilson

“What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?”

Ifs Rivers Chinese Marine Mississippi Laundry Memphis Mississippi River

Author:Will Rogers

“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.”

Force Nations Forget Enemy Air Protect Commitment Importance Constitution Army Never Forget Coast Navy Marine Oath Air Force Army Navy Coast Guard

Author:Robin Hayes

“I have always loved marine biology and that is what I studied in school. I am hoping to build a marine sanctuary that will also be educational, an eco preserve and a school, perhaps in Costa Rica, that is one of my dreams and goals.”

Dream School Goal Educational Preserves Biology Marine Sanctuary Eco Dreams And Goals Costa Rica Marine Biology

Author:Paul Walker

“I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast, then."”

Humor Funny Lasts Tables Seven Dinner Seconds Weekend Marine Toasts

Author:Margaret Smith

“I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.”

Sea Example Bottom Maps Fascinated Unseen Marine Geography Tsunami Deep Things

Author:Joan Didion

“I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.”

“The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone.”

Marine Summit Everest Mount Everest Limestone

Author:John McPhee

“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.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.”

Able Levels Discipline Realistic Marine Marine Corps

Author:Steve McQueen

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

Relation Marine Captives Marine Corps

Author:Robert Smith

“The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.”

Successful West September Coast Marine Korea Spectacular Landing Marine Corps Naval West Coast Audacious Us Army Korean War

Author:Bernard Brodie

“If you ask me why I've succeeded it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.”

Ifs Asks Achievement Overcoming Adversity Ask Me Royal Unbelievable Marine Overcoming Adversity

Author:Brian McDermott

“Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.”

Marine Vessel Sailor Naval

Author:Bob Hope

“In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole.”

Holes Navy Marine

Author:George Carlin

“The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.”

“When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.”

Said Blood Example Cold Killing Innocent Marine Civilians

Author:George W. Bush

“I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.”

Night Stars Black Dark Cities Sea Grew Grew Up Related Coast Marine Dark Places Marine Life Bulgaria

Author:Dimitar Sasselov

“I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.”

Knows Want Long Play Wanted Class College Long Time Guitar Online Biology Marine Surf Marine Biology

Author:Ali Lohan

“Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.”

Fronts Europe Extremes France Pens Marine Putin

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.”

Thinking Made Opportunity Given Decision Jail Marine

Author:Huey Morgan

“Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.”

Want Should Made Band Marine

Author:Huey Morgan

“The marines gave me an eternal discipline.”

Discipline Eternal Marine

Author:Huey Morgan

“In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion King, is 100% pure crap. So we're doing better than they are even though they have the benefit of mostly not being about space marines.”

Want Writing Play Games Space Kings Pure Benefits Including Defense Lions Crap Marine August Lion King

Author:Erik Wolpaw

“If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.”

Ifs Stills Force Air Dangerous New York Catholic Scary Bread Instant Potatoes Marine Marine Corps Air Force Montana

Author:Lenny Bruce

“Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.”

Years Made Law Force Numbers Air Week Available Defense Budgets Extras Just One Leap Navy Marine Air Force Aircraft

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

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