First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.
Quotes about foxhole (7 Quotes)
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
We're not nearly concerned about size as we are about being profitable. We have to go foxhole by foxhole, looking at the way we do business and making changes as we think are required. We're not done with that process. It'll continue on forever.
There have been only two people I have written a letter to in my life and he's one of them. It was during a time when he was getting crucified and I wound it up by saying, If there was ever a guy I want to be in a foxhole with, who I know would have my back, it would be you.' Anyone who knows Jerry feels the same way.
It's not an embarrassment to lose to Detroit that way. They are a very good basketball team. But I told my guys that I would go in a foxhole with them any day. They never lay down, and I'm very proud of them.
There is no middle ground when taking the hill. You either stay in the foxhole or fight to the finish. Turning back just gets you shot in the back - and no one wants to finish as a coward.
This is no new allegation, this is no new case, and this is no new fact. The fact is the same today as it was in 1997. And God is my pilot, and God is in my foxhole.