The best Quotes from We Were Soldiers

We who have seen war will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night we will always hear the screams.

Joe Galloway

Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "I think you oughta get yourself an M-16."
Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley: "Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground."

Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley

Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "I'll never forgive myself."
Joe Galloway: "For what, sir?"
Lt. Col. Hal Moore: "That my men died and I didn't."

Lt. Col. Hal Moore

If they're trying to get us close enough to kill, I rekon we'll be close enough to kill them.

Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley

Some had families waiting. For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. There were no bands, no flags, no Honor Guards to welcome them home. They went to war because their country ordered them to. But in the end, they fought not for their country or their flag, they fought for each other.

Joe Galloway

Kill all they send and they will stop coming.

Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An

I know that God has a plan for me, I just hope it's to help protect orphans, not make any.

Lt. Jack Geoghegan

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

Lt. Col. Hal Moore

Maj. Gen. Henry Kinnard: "The White House anticipates a buildup and wants a victory over cavemen in black pajamas."
"We wouldn't be there if they hadn't already beaten the French Army."
Maj. Gen. Henry Kinnard: "French Army? What's that?"

Maj. Gen. Henry Kinnard

These are the true events of November, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam. A place our country does not remember, in a war it does not understand.

Joe Galloway

Vietnam

Nothing's wrong except there's nothing wrong!

Lt. Col. Hal Moore

Sgt. Ernie Savage: "Beautiful morning, Sergeant!"
Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley: "What are you a f*cking weatherman now?"

Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley

Good-Morning-Quotes

If any of you sons of b*tches calls me "grandpa", I'll kill you!

Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley

Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: "I got a problem, Snake Shit, and I think you're the solution."
Maj. Bruce Crandall: "I've been called a lot of things, Colonel, never a solution."

Maj. Bruce Crandall

Crandall: "My men call me Snakeshit, sir."
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: "Why do they call you that?"
Crandall: "Because I fly 'lower than snakeshit', sir."

Maj. Bruce Crandall

To follow your instincts and to inspire your men, by your example, you have to be with 'em. Where the metal meets the meat.

Lt. Col. Hal Moore

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After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mel Gibson

Women Chocolate

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Mel Gibson

Actors

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

Mel Gibson

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Mel Gibson

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

Keri Russell

Decisions Small Things

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Keri Russell

Beauty Girls

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

Keri Russell

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

Keri Russell

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Keri Russell

I soared above the song birds
And never heard them sing
I lived my life in winter
And then you brought the spring

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

Spring

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

Randall Wallace in Pearl Harbor

War

I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."

Randall Wallace

C.S. Lewis

I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and to do it I would feel God's pleasure.

Randall Wallace

I grew up a Baptist and went to seminary at Methodist school, Duke University, but I also don't worry too much about denominations. I love what John Wesley said - "If our hearts are together, let's not worry about whether our heads are together. If our hearts are together, then let's joins hands." So, I try to do that regardless of denominations.

Randall Wallace

I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.

Randall Wallace

I majored in religion for my entire undergraduate career at Duke University and then I went to seminary for a year unsure whether or not I really had the call to be a minister. I spoke with a pastor of my home church and told him I was going to seminary. He said "Do you feel the call to be a minister?" and I said "Honestly, I don't. I know it's the greatest call you could have but I'm not feeling that call myself. He said "Well, you know, you're wrong. It's not the greatest call. The greatest call is whatever calling God has for you."

Randall Wallace

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Randall Wallace

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Randall Wallace

If I'm making a film and I'm not loving everything about it, then I know I've got to change something until I do.

Randall Wallace

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Stephen Ambrose

Vietnam

Fit? Slept well? Motivated? Great - me neither. Good Morning!

Good-Morning-Quotes

Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.

Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor

Love declerations Sunset Evening

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

Beast / Hank McCoy in X-Men - Erste Entscheidung

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