Top 10 Most Famous ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes (BEST)
“My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me. To be honest with you, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel coming back here. Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. I tried to live my life the best that I could. I hope that was enough. I hope that, at least in your eyes, I’ve earned what all of you have done for me.”
Ryan as Old Man
PinHe better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb. – Captain MillerPinYou can tell her that when you found me, I was with the only brothers I had left. And that there was no way I was deserting them. I think she’d understand that. – Private RyanPinIt’s like finding a needle in a stack of needles. – Captain MillerPinI just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel. – Captain Miller
“I don’t know. Part of me thinks the kid’s right. What’s he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine. Let’s leave him and go home. But another part of me thinks, what if we stay, and by some miracle we actually make it out of here alive? Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, shitty mess. And like you said, Captain: We do that, we all earned the right to go home.”
Sergeant Mike Horvath
PinBe not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. – Private JacksonPinWell, it seems to me, sir, that God gave me a special gift, made me a fine instrument of warfare. – Private JacksonPinPort side stick, starboard side stick. Move fast and clear those murder holes. – Captain MillerPinIf that earns me the right to get back to my wife well, then… then that’s my mission. – Captain Miller
12 Touching ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes
“Well, when I think of home, I think of something specific. I think of my, my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rose bushes in a pair of my old work gloves.”
Captain Miller
PinWhy do I deserve to go? Why not any of these guys? They all fought just as hard. – Private RyanPinThat boy is alive. We are gonna send somebody to find him. And we are gonna get him the hell… outta there. – Gen. George C. Marshall
“Sometimes I wonder if I’ve changed so much that my wife is even going to recognize me, whenever it is that I get back to her. And how I’ll ever be able to tell her about days like today.”
Captain Miller
PinNo, I mean it. Find him. Get him home. – Captain HamillPinTheirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. – Corporal UphamPinOh my God, my brothers are dead. I was gonna take ’em fishing when we got home. How, how did they die? – Private Ryan
“My dear, Mrs. Ryan, it’s with the most profound sense of joy that I write to inform you, your son, Private James Ryan, is well and, at this very moment, on his way home from European battlefields.”
General George C. Marshall
PinWhen was the last time you felt good about anything? – Captain MillerPinAll we can do here is die. – Captain Miller
“You see, when… when you end up killing one of your men, you see, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others. Maybe a hundred others.”
Captain Miller
PinI can’t see my brothers’ faces. And I’ve been trying, and I can’t see their faces at all. Has that ever happened to you? – Private Ryan
11 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Captain Miller
PinAnd then that big boat home. – Captain MillerPin‘The Statue of Liberty is kaput’ – that’s disconcerting. – Captain MillerPinKeep the sand out of your weapons. Keep those actions clear. I’ll see you on the beach. – Captain MillerPinThis is why we don’t pick up children. – Captain MillerPinWe are not here to do a decent thing, we are here to follow fuckin’ orders! – Captain MillerPinCovering fire! – Captain MillerPinOur objective is to win the war. – Captain MillerPinJames, earn this. Earn it! – Captain MillerPinSergeant, we have crossed some strange boundary here. The world has taken a turn for the surreal. – Captain MillerPinWe all have orders, and we have to follow ’em. That supersedes everything, including your mothers. – Captain MillerPinBack home, when I’d tell people what I do for a living, they’d think, “Well, yeah, that figures.” But over here, it’s a… a big mystery. So I guess I’ve changed some. – Captain Miller
5 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes that Inspires Spirituality
PinBe not thou far from me, O Lord. – Private JacksonPinWhat’s the saying? If God’s on our side, who the hell could be on theirs? – Private ReibenPinBlessed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. – Private JacksonPinOh my God, I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over me. – Private JacksonPinMy goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. – Private Jackson
3 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Private Jackson
“What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler… with a clean line of sight… well, pack your bags, boys. War’s over.”
Private Jackson
PinI wouldn’t venture out there fellas. This sniper’s got talent. – Private JacksonPinSeems to me, Cap’n, this mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources. – Private Jackson
4 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Sergeant Horvath
PinYou don’t know when to shut up; you don’t know how to shut up! – Sergeant HorvathPinWe’re in business! – Sergeant HorvathPinThis time the mission is the man. – Sergeant HorvathPinWhy don’t you just hand ’em blindfolds, Captain? – Sergeant Horvath
4 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Private Reiben
PinHey a**hole! Two of our guys died trying to find you, all right? – Private ReibenPinF*** Ryan. – Private ReibenPinPut your money where your mouth is. – Private ReibenPinYou wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where’s the sense of risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy? – Private Reiben
2 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Private
PinThey’re killing us! And we don’t have a fuc**n chance and that’s not fair! – PrivatePinDon’t shoot! Let them burn! – Private
2 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Steamboat Willie
PinAmerican, I like American. – Steamboat WilliePinUpham! – Steamboat Willie
3 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes by Private Mellish
PinYour father was circumcised by my rabbi, you prick! – Private MellishPinWhat the f*ck is that supposed to mean, Corporal, huh? We’re all supposed to die, is that it? – Private MellishPinF*cked up beyond all recognition. – Private Mellish
3 ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Quotes that Will Make You Think
“War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.”
Corporal Upham
PinPicture a girl who took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. – Private RyanPinWe missed our drop zone by about 20 miles, ended up way over by Bumville or some damn place. – Paratrooper Mandelsohn
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