Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Quotes & Sayings

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable. — Enid Bagnold

What you must do," she continued, "you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time. — Stephen Whitfield

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J.G. Holland

Don't ever let good enough be good enough. — Bill Parcells

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending. — Tim O'Brien