General Omar Bradley Quotes & Sayings

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. — John Clellon Holmes

War is always a negative-sum outcome. It subtracts, removes, empties. No one who has witnessed combat can, with any honesty, describe it another way. "We know more about war than we know about peace," said five-star general Omar Bradley in an Armistice Day address a few years after the end of World War II, "more about killing than we know about living." Think of it like this. For every soldier's grave in places such as Arlington or Anzio or Normandy, there are more forgotten burial sites for civilians - parents, children, newlyweds, and newborns - claimed in some way by the same fighting. — Brian Murphy

Gabe rose from the table and paced the kitchen, his energy nearly building to a level he couldn't contain beneath the Veil. He expended energy into his coffee he held - heating, cooling, and reheating it between his hands. The two of them paced, talked, and sipped at coffee thinking of ways to outsmart the oldest liar on Earth. "Maybe — H.G. Reed

Prosperity's the very bond of love. — William Shakespeare

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions. — Omar N. Bradley

With Sofia, it felt like I'd finally found my compass. I knew that as long as I had her, I had someone to keep me grounded, someone to direct my way. If only for Sofia, I had a reason to stay awake. — Bella Forrest

She'd never been kissed like that before - like the shell of her soul had evaporated. — Kelly Creagh

I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know that your life if fucked up no matter what now, forever. And I'm not dumb enough to think that I can undo that, that anyone can. But I can't wrap my mind around the notion of you not getting old, having kids, going to Juilliard, getting to play that cello in front of a huge audience, so that they can get the chills the way I do every time I see you pick up your bow, every time I see you smile at me. — Gayle Forman

Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports. — Omar N. Bradley