Purple Heart Quotes:

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

- Robert Downey, Jr.

topic: Heart, Purple, Soldier, Purple Heart, I'm Back

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Heart, Purple, Wanted, Purple Heart

The only medal that I am certain I deserved is the Purple Heart.

- Bob Kerrey

source: Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

topic: Heart, Purple, Certain, Purple Heart

Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!

- Henry Pierson Crowe

topic: Military, Heart, Purple, My Marine, Ww2

One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

- George W. Bush

topic: Meaningful, Heart, Purple, Most Meaningful, Purple Heart

I said you [Mike Pence] can't give me this [Purple Heart]. He said, "Mr. Trump you mean so much to me and my family." You know we're doing very well with the veterans. I know you guys do not like to say that.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Heart, Mean, Purple, Purple Heart

John Kerry went duck hunting and he's doing that to fulfill his campaign pledge to hunt down the ducks and kill them wherever they are! Kerry did pretty well; he came back with four ducks and three Purple Hearts.

- David Letterman

source: "Trail Tales: Gore Returns to Florida". "Late Show" with David Letterman, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2004.

topic: Heart, Hunting, Purple, Purple Heart, Duck Hunting

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

topic: Heart, Men, Purple, Purple Heart

So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Dog, Stars, Pretzels, Falling Off

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

topic: Stupid, Athlete, Heart, Die Young, Menopause

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

- Ron Kovic

source: "Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

topic: Stars, Heart, Two, Purple Heart

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Life, Father, War, Purple Heart

You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.

- Martin Dempsey

topic: Military, Heart, Purple, Perpetrators, Purple Heart

We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.

- Bob Wooler

topic: Strong, Heart, Mean, Amphetamines, Purple Heart