14 Regiment Quotes for You to Enjoy

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Worth Men Valid Furnish Latter More Idea New Command Than Fewer Former Regiment

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Christopher Marlowe

Day Sunshine Power Gone Kings Shadows Perfect Regiment

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. David Bailey

You Army Prison Spend Parachute Out Tell Inside Someone Give Beaten He Put Instead Putting Soon Him Sort Got Years Up Five May Being Eight Regiment Choice

With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck. Douglas Brinkley

Men Three First Other Top-Notch Lieutenant More Colonel Through Stuck Until Cheering Were Texas Than Regiment Newspapers Roosevelt Riders Rough Chose Four Teddy

My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment, where it was based. After Sandhurst, he returned to the Caribbean as a junior lieutenant, based in Jamaica. He met my mum and became a Jamaican citizen. John Barnes

If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. Edward Zwick

Day Nature You Try Made Men Joke Other Changes Seven Scale Would Would-Be About Beach Rather Take Make Glory Were Than Woods Story Regiment Now Platoon Away

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. Mark Burnett

War Government Duty Active Teens Airplane Parachute Out Would Joined Allow Tours Budget Lots Ireland Did Northern Northern Ireland Regiment Then Us Much Two

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. Polly Toynbee

Today Day Spiritual Compassion Values Sense Temporal Rise Lords Up Common Common Sense Against Regiment Proclaim Enlightenment

My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment. Ajay Mehta

Sports Human Being Brilliant Father Directed He Performed Academics Wrote His Very Human Arts Being Regiment Special English Plays

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career. Ajay Mehta