Infantryman Quotes

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? - George Grosz

Tolkien went through it himself (as an infantryman) in World War I. But it just got worse in his lifetime... I think he was very preoccupied with the nature of evil, the nature of technology, the way in which things could be abused, the way good intentions are subverted. That's what it's all about. - Tom Shippey

The purpose is for the cadets to have a better understanding of the history of the infantryman and where some of the practices that we still use today come from. - Larry Babits

Speed is life to an infantryman. - Russell Crawford

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. - William Alexander Henry

I read The Civil War Infantryman , which talked about making 20-mile marches in the dead heat of summer in wool uniforms, then sitting down to eat salt pork. I'm sleeping in air-conditioned hotels, with good food every day and, like, a made-to-order omelet station. Who am I kidding about how difficult this is? - Kyle Brady

He did a job few of us did, or could have done. And I'm a twice-wounded infantryman. - Robert Wolfe

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. - Brendan Francis