Space: Above and Beyond quotes

Tonight we stand beneath a new heaven. After 150 years of calling out, the silence of the universe assures us that life is unique. We are alone. You and I are among the first to bring life to the stars - to this planet. The farthest any human has ever ventured. I know there are those at home who say that we are here only as a status symbol. Others say that we are fortune hunters, or that we're running away. But I know we're here because of faith - faith in each other, in a better world. The rocket fuel that brought us here can be burnt away, but our belief in ourselves, in one another, in the future, never can be; never will be.

I am your senior drill instructor, I am here to turn you slimey civilian cesspool parasites into United States Marine Corp space aviators, invoking bowel wrenching fear into the dark hearts of your enemies

I am a road map, i will lead and you will follow, i will teach and you will learn, when you leave my academy you will be weapons, focussed and full of purpose, Hot Rod rocket gods of precision and strength, terrorising across the cosmos and hunting for heaven

I am not an officer, I work for a living!

In space, no one can hear you scream, unless it is the war cry of the U.S. Marines!

You might fly an individual rocket but you are a squadron, you are a team, and if your risk your ass you risk the teams

No matter where you stand on this planet, either beneath the sun's warmth, or the cold of night, the storm cloud's of war gather over our home, soon they may fall in unceasing thunder bolts, we must stand together against the deluge, we cannot possibly retreat

War is what Marines pray for

As part of your training, there is no commanding officer. You are on your own. From this moment until we win this war, the only easy day is yesterday.

Lt. Cooper Hawkes

I never had a mother, but you sound like one.

My advice, go home, see your families, could be the last time.

Courage, Honour, Dedication, Sacrifice, these are just the words they used to get you here, now the only word that means a damn to you, is life. Yours, your buddies, the one certainty in war is that in an hour, maybe two, you'll either still be alive or you'll be dead.

That's when we'll teach them something every human knows. Payback's a bitch.

The break in the storm is momentary, the thunder shall return, the lightning will certainly strike again.

Lt. Nathan West

Elsewhere, stars are born, other star systems, older, larger, continue to breath, a solar system dies a crib death, if that what it takes, then OK, if I must wait that long, then all right, because when I think of this, nothing is more desirable then the hope of watching that last day when the sun flickers out with you beside me. We will sit alone on a dark chunk of ice on top of the world, and the stars above,beyond and between us, will never shine brighter, as we drift away, into space