Saving Private Ryan Quotes

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• 1. Pvt. James Ryan: Picture a girl who just took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch coming down.
  – Submitted by Friso C (3 months ago)
• 1. Sgt. Horvath: Maybe saving Private Ryan is the one decent thing we did in this war.
  – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)
• 1. Cpl. Upham: So where you from, Captain? What did you do before the war?
  2. Capt. John Miller: What's the pool up to?
  3. Cpl. Upham: I think it's at 300.
  4. Capt. John Miller: I'll tell you what. When it gets to 500 then I'll tell you and we'll split it.
  5. Cpl. Upham: Well in that case, sir, as someone under your command, I would ask that we wait until it gets up 1000.
  6. Capt. John Miller: What if we don't live that long?
  7. Cpl. Upham: ...500?
  8. Capt. John Miller: 500.
  – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Mellish: He's good.
  2. Pvt. Caparzo: I love him.
  – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: [struggling to speak]
  2. Pvt. James Ryan: Whats that sir?
  3. Capt. John Miller: [pulling Ryan closer] E-Earn this. Earn it.
  – Submitted by Giovanni R (6 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: MAYBE YOU SHOULD SHUT UP!
  – Submitted by Conner W (7 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: [get's Bunker gunner's attention then jumps back into cover]
  2. Sgt. Horvath: If your Mother saw you do that she'd be very upset!
  3. Capt. John Miller: I thought you were my mother.
  – Submitted by Kyle K (7 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Caparzo: Captain, the decent thing to do would be take her over to the next town.
  2. Capt. John Miller: We're not here to do the decent thing...we're here to follow fuckin' orders.
  – Submitted by Jared B (7 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. James Ryan: It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense, sir. Why? Why do I deserve to go? Why not any of these guys? They all fought just as hard as me.
  2. Capt. John Miller: Is that what they're suppose to tell your mother when they send her another folded American flag?
  3. Pvt. James Ryan: Tell her that when you found me I was here and I was with the only brothers that I have left and that there was no way I was gonna desert them. I think she'll understand that. There's no way I'm leaving this bridge.
  – Submitted by Brett L (8 months ago)
• 1. Sergeant Hill: I can get this goddamn hitchhiker out of my boot.
  – Submitted by Connor N (9 months ago)
• 1. Sgt. Horvath: Maybe I should flank left sir.
  2. Capt. John Miller: The way you run, I don't think so.
  – Submitted by Connor N (9 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Caparzo: I dont see the point of wasting eight guys for one does anyone else see this logic.
  – Submitted by Matt B (10 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Mellish: Your father was circumcised by my Rabbi you prick!
  – Submitted by Daniel R (11 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: You're the doctor! Tell us what you need!
  2. T/4 Medic Wade: I... could use... some more... of those painkillers...
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Caparzo: Really? You're gonna shoot me?
  2. Corporal Henderson: I'm gonna shoot you 'cause I don't like you!
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)
• 1. T/4 Medic Wade: Momma... I'm comin' home... Momma... Momma... [dies]
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Caparzo: Don't shoot! Let 'em burn!
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: Ryan... earn it. Earn it...
  – Submitted by Jed G (12 months ago)
• 1. Private Richard Reiben: Great. Now we have to surrender our socks.
  – Submitted by Jonathan N (14 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: Earn this...
  – Submitted by Sean H (15 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Mellish: Maybe I should go up the middle sir.
  2. Capt. John Miller: The way you run, I don't think so.
  3. Pvt. Mellish: Maybe I should go left sir.
  4. Capt. John Miller: Maybe you should shut up!
  – Submitted by Daniel R (19 months ago)
• 1. Pvt. Jackson: Parker, get down! [explosion]
  – Submitted by Teja A (20 months ago)
• 1. Ryan as Old Man: Tell me I've lived a good life. Tell me I'm a good man.
  – Submitted by Austin P (21 months ago)
• 1. Private Richard Reiben: You wanna explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense of riskin' the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?
  2. Capt. John Miller: Twenty degrees. Anybody wanna answer that?
  3. T/4 Medic Wade: Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother.
  4. Private Richard Reiben: Hey, Doc, I got a mother, all right? I mean, you got a mother. Sarge's got a mother. I mean, [he turns and looks at Miller, who has a bemused expression on his face] shit, I bet even the captain's got a mother.
  5. Private Richard Reiben: Well, maybe not the captain, but the rest of us got mothers.
  – Submitted by Sam B (22 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
  – Submitted by Brooks E (22 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: Earn this!
  – Submitted by Vinit M (22 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: Gripes go up not down. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer.
  – Submitted by Joel D (23 months ago)
• 1. Private Richard Reiben: I will wear him like underwear, Sir!
  – Submitted by Cathy R (24 months ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: Earn this.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
• 1. Pvt. Jackson: What I mean by that, sir, is if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... with a clean line of sight... Pack your bags, fellas. War's over. Amen.
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
• 1. Capt. John Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" - that's disconcerting.
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)