Chesty Puller Quotes

I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.

Chesty Puller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 26, 1898 - October 11, 1971

Topics

LifeGreatMenValueSafetyForward

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Jo Brand

DoingUpStandingBecauseLike

When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat.

Melvin Van Peebles

DayBasketballEvery DayNeverKid

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

Robert Klein

CollegeEmployeesNewSpecialFirst

Scandinavia can be quite fashionable.

Sigrid

QuiteFashionable

The thing that people have said over and over again, especially people who don't cook, is, 'I watch your show, the food makes me hungry, and I think I can make that.' That's exciting because we've heard that a lot of people watch cooking shows but don't make the food.

Trisha Yearwood

FoodCookingPeopleMeThinkI Can

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Tom Robbins

AuthorityOrderGotRespected

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

WisePerfectSobrietyReasonLeads

It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.

Monique Lhuillier

LifeFamilyWorkplaceHardKeep

I always wanted to run a major label, and I feel like I got the skills to do that. The one thing about me is that I won't sit behind a desk the whole time - I'll go to the clubs and see what's hot.

Juicy J

TimeMeFeelGoSkillsRun

I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.

Josh Turner

WorkLiveImperfectionLearnYouGo

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Jay Griffiths

MusicKnowledgeMindMedicineTrees

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SpaceTreesRealityFishProblem

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