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.

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."

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."

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

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.

Kill all they send and they will stop coming.

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

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.

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?"

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.

Nothing's wrong except there's nothing wrong!

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

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

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."

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."

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

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.

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

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

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

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

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