Elliot Johnson quotes

Elliot Johnson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.”
-- Elliot Johnson

#Memorial Day Quotes #Shells Quotes #Body Quotes

“So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
“From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.”
“They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.”
“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”
“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.”
“I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.”
“The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.”
“It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.”
“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”
“A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.”

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