Squaddie Quotes & Sayings

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. — Honore De Balzac

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron De Montesquieu

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer ... — Eamon Dunphy

He'd never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that. — Cindy Skaggs

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack. — Michael Gove

Aye, that's me. Rough tough squaddie with the intellectual depth of a shallow baby bath and the educational background of a hedgerow. Complicated? Yeah, right." Dan laughed.
Vadim laughed, too. "Sorry, but that just about nails it." He grew more serious and whispered. "But you also have the heart of a tiger and the vastness of a mountain. — Aleksandr Voinov

What's always got me is the fact that when people talked on the telly about Iraq, before Afghanistan kicked off, you'd get only these public-school-type army officers talking about what was going on out there. I kept thinking, 'Why don't we get the true voice of the squaddie? Why don't we hear from the lads on the battlefield?' — Ross Kemp

When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it. — Matthew Parris

I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing. — Chris Wooding

Aye, that's me. Roughie toughie squaddie with the intellectual depth of a shallow baby bath and the educational background of a hedgerow. I'm complicated, me. — Marquesate

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — John Henry Newman

Once the god-squaddie supreme, she was now possessed of the zeal of the apostate and came on like an atheistic stormtrooper. — Salman Rushdie

No matter if I'm booting extra points, kicking off, punting ... whatever. I can kick things far, and I'm willing to do whatever the Colts ask of me. — Pat McAfee