Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Smith

Sir, our Iraqi partners have been conducting battalion and Brigade-size operations since April. They have been planning and coordinating with other Iraqi security forces, such as the Iraqi police and local government agencies, preparing for this referendum. Sir, we as coalition forces, we have taken a supporting role only as they prepare to execute this referendum.

Andy Yakulis

Basically, the battalion commander of any unit is responsible for anything that unit does or fails to do.

Clint Eastwood

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Alvaro Uribe

When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.

Craig Brown

My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.

Kit Bond

I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Scott Evans

Today is a great day as we stand with you to recognize the sacrifices and contributions of the men and women of the 216th Engineer Battalion through what was a very long, challenging year in Iraq, ... It was indeed an honor to serve with the men and women who comprised the 216th.

John Towers

I see more soldiers daily than I did as a battalion commander.

Scott Lewis

I said, 'I want to talk to someone big,' ... Ten minutes later, we were with the battalion commander.

Mike Bellotti

We have to find ways to utilize James Finley and find ways to do a better job of integrating Cameron Colvin into the offense.

Toni Collette

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size. It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.

Kathryn Newton

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.

Laura Haddock

I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

Pankaj Mishra

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Frank Haith

But we've played in some tough places this season. We've been to the Dean Dome, Cameron Indoor Stadium, Maryland and Michigan. It's not like we don't know what it's like to play in a hostile environment.

Theresa May

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.

Jeanette Winterson

I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepared to give David Cameron his chance - even though he is a Tory.

Cameron Boyce

I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

Russell Johnson

We really feel we landed the right one.

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.