Gerald Griffin Quotes

Gerald Griffin offers lyrical, wistful verses that feel like a gentle memory-tide.

6 quotes

1. A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name.

2. When, like the rising day, Eileen Aroon! Love sends his early ray, Eileen Aroon! What makes his dawning glow Changeless through joy and woe? Only the constant know!- Eileen Aroon!

3. There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

4. I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

5. Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

6. “Good has become bastardized, made to look evil by evil claiming to be good until both good and evil are lost in the mix." Griffin, Of Good And Evil”