David Dixon Porter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

  • Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  • Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  • Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

  • Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.

  • Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  • I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

  • You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

  • Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

  • Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.