John Peck > Quotes

“Shut your damn mouth or I will put my foot so far up your ass it will come out your face!”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“You had to have the Marines’ respect, top to bottom, if you expected to do your job well.”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“SSG Jones was a hard ass, hard-charging, hardcore, all Marine Corps, all his life and all the time, type of a Marine.”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“God’s ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts, His plan is without flaw.”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“really had to face one problem and one day at a time.”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“We all have to lose our cherry sometime.”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“His time line almost never meets ours. Ours”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?

“good corpsman spent a good deal of their time talking with and listening to the enlisted troops. You found out all kinds of things that way. Most important of which, when a Marine”
― John Peck, The Chaplain & The Corpsman: Why Me God?