15 Movie Quotes about Veterans (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: June 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about veterans, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Who am I? I'm a _ing veteran. That's who I am.

John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski

2 When I go home, people ask me, Hey, why do you do it, man? Why? You some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word.

Eric Bana as Hoot in Black Hawk Down

3 I've seen a couple of facts. I've seen a ship go down and over 400 of my shipmates went with it. Were those guys suckers? -That's the unpleasant truth.

Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

4 I'm lucky, I have my elbows. Some of the boys don't.

Harold Russell as Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

5 Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Hah! Someday, you'll learn how they hate to give up.

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

6 The thing that scares me most is that everybody's gonna try to rehabilitate me. All I want's a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife. Give me that much and I'm rehabilitated like that.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

7 We've taken on a number of veterans. They make good salesmen, you know. Men who have suffered from some kind of disability.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

8 Poor Fred. I guess you think he's an awful sourpuss. He didn't used to be that way, though. Army's had an awful effect on him. Knocked all the life out of him.

Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

9 Another ex-serviceman, huh? Greetings, brother. Have you had any trouble getting readjusted? -Not in particular. It's easy if you just take everything in your stride. -That's what I've heard.

Dana Andrews as Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

10 I see. One of the fallen angels of the Air Force. Well, pardon me if I show no sympathy. While you glamour boys were up in the wild blue yonder, I was down in a tank.