The one thing I remember from Fort Benning is that they didn’t seem to be nobody much smarter than I was, which was certainly a relief.
By 1929 a handful of farsighted flight pioneers had concluded that “aviation could not progress until planes could fly safely day or night in almost any kind of weather.” Foremost among these was Dr. Jimmy Doolittle, recently armed with a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In.
One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.
After a trip to Japan Mitchell famously predicted that the next war would be fought in the Pacific after a Japanese sneak attack on a Sunday morning in Hawaii. Eddie Rickenbacker, who had served as Mitchell’s driver before becoming an ace combat pilot, wryly quipped that “the only people who paid any attention to him were the Japanese.” Most.
So I tole him a little bit about my checkered career, an after he listened for a while, Tom Hanks says, “Well, Mr. Gump, you are sure a curious feller. Sounds like somebody ought to make a movie of your life’s story.
You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you’ve got more sense than most people.
There was some people hurt far worst than I was in that hospital, let me tell you. Poor old boys with arms and legs and hands and who knows what else missing. Boys what had been shot in their stomach and chests and faces. At night the place sound like a torture chamber – them fellers be howling and crying and calling for their mamas.
Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!
The Cracked Eggs, he says, have broken up.
I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain’t sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it’s just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.
The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.
Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.
Your chances of winnin’ the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.
Dream, but don’t quit your day job.
Nobody ever went broke sayin’ ‘Good Mornin″ to folks.
Try not to screw up. This will satisfy a few people, and amaze everybody else.
To save energy, do not go out lookin’ for trouble; chances are, it will find you soon enough.
When you feel there is an unfair burden on your shoulders, that’s just the way it is sometimes.
But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don’t you think I ain’t rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I’m forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?
He unbutton his jacket an inside, on his shirt, is all his medals – Purple Heart, Silver Star – must of been ten or twelve of them. “They remind me of somethin,” he said. “I’m not quite sure what – the war, of course, but that’s jus a part of it. I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It’s my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now – medals where my soul used to be.