Foxhole Quotes

Why me? That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes. - William Broyles Jr

We're not nearly concerned about size as we are about being profitable. We have to go foxhole by foxhole, looking at the way we do business and making changes as we think are required. We're not done with that process. It'll continue on forever. - John Denison

We were in those foxholes and ... what we did was to defend ourselves and try to live through it. - Lyle Bouck

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. - Orson Scott Card

This is no new allegation, this is no new case, and this is no new fact. The fact is the same today as it was in 1997. And God is my pilot, and God is in my foxhole. - Bill Burkett

These guys have no quit in them. These guys are 100 percent warriors. That's coming from an ex-Marine here, and I'll take these guys in a foxhole with me any day. - Mark Rydbom

There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything and anything you can think of. - Warren Zinn

There have been only two people I have written a letter to in my life and he's one of them. It was during a time when he was getting crucified and I wound it up by saying, `If there was ever a guy I want to be in a foxhole with, who I know would have my back, it would be you.' Anyone who knows Jerry feels the same way. - Ken Harrelson

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. - John F. Kennedy

Mike is all about winning... He's the kind of guy I'd like getting into a foxhole with. - Jerry Colangelo