Charlie Murphy Quotes

There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.

For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it's given me a real love of history.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories and other stories have blended together, so now you don't know what he's talking about. One time, we were surrounded, then we ran out of ammo, then we were fighting hand-to-hand, then we started dancing, and that's how I met your mother.

I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.

We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.

I am calm. That's why I can fight you!~Uryu Ishida

A Warrior of the Light cannot always choose his battlefield.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?