Marching Quotes

“There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.”
― Ashok Kallarakkal

“I prayed for twenty years. Nothing happened until I got off my knees and started marching with my feet.”
― Jay Coles, Tyler Johnson Was Here

“Vacate the bench of rest and play the game of the bests. Keep on marching; no more benching!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!”
― James Oppenheim

“How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.”
― Henry V. O'Neil, Dire Steps

“If protesting, do no harm to yourself or others. Peaceful protest is more effective when creating real change. Peaceful protest wins over the hearts and minds of the majority. That majority continues to grow. It is like sunlight and water for your garden.”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“Life has a cruel way of reminding one and all it stops for no one and simply marches on, dragging everyone with it.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“My feet are shaking but I’ll do whatever it takes to take a step forward.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Everything stinks: creosote, bleach, disinfectant, soil, blood, gangrene.
The military authorities say uniforms must be preserved at all costs, but that means manhandling patients who are in agony. Cut them off, says Sister Byrd, and she's the voice of authority here, in the Salle d'Attente, not some gold-braid-encrusted crustacean miles away from blood and pain, so cut they do, snip, snip, snip, snip, as close to the skin as they dare.
On either side of Paul as he cuts are two long rows of feet: yellow, strong, calloused, scarred where blisters have formed and burst repeatedly. Since August they've done a lot of marching, these feet, and all their marching has brought them to this one place.”
― Pat Barker, Life Class

“Die Sonne mag brennen, daß die Sinne wirbeln, vorwärts muß er.”
― Erwin Rosen, In the Foreign Legion

“The choice of marching towards death in poor health or improved health is open to many sickened people.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“On ordinary days we each walk alone or with a companion or two on the sidewalks, and the streets are used for transit and for commerce. On extraordinary days—on the holidays that are anniversaries of historic and religious events and on the days we make history ourselves—we walk together, and the whole street is for stamping out the meaning of the day.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“We are the marching millions.
Our journey never ends.
The more we march towards hope
the more our hope moves
further away from us.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Legacy can only occur when cowardice is brought begging to the feet of the soul that is marching to drum of sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough