Saving Private Ryan quotes

80 total quotes

Captain John H. Miller
Corporal Timothy P. Upham
Gen. George C. Marshall

Multiple Characters
Private Daniel Jackson
Private James Francis Ryan
Sergeant Mike Horvath

View Quote [On executing a prisoner] It's against the Goddamn rules!

View Quote [smoking a cigarette] Funny, I told my C.O.s I'd never smoke a cigarette.

View Quote [after Miller explains the "sticky bomb" can be looked up in a field manual] We seem to be out of field manuals, sir. Perhaps you can "enlighten" us.

View Quote Pvt. Reiben: What's that saying? "If God's with us, who the hell's on their side"?

View Quote Pvt. Reiben: [after seeing the person they were suppose to save] Told you he was an asshole.

View Quote Pvt. Caparzo: [after being shot] It-it's a letter to my dad. I-it's got blood on it, Fish.

View Quote Pvt. Caparzo: [after rescuing a little girl] Sorry sir, she reminds me of my niece.

View Quote Pvt. Mellish: [after Upham taps Mellish on the shoulder] You want your head blown off, you fancy little ****? Don't ever touch me with those ****in' rat claws.

View Quote Medic Wade: Just give us a ****ing chance, you son-of-a-bitch! you son-of-a-****ing ****!

View Quote Medic Wade: Hey Reiben, do me a favor. Smell that leg wound, find out if it's south of cheese.

View Quote Medic Wade: I could use a little more morphine...

View Quote Corporal Henderson: [to Mellish, referring to the gum he's chewing] Got anymore of that stuff?

View Quote Soldier: Where's the rally point?!
Capt. Miller: Anywhere but here!

View Quote [after Miller uses himself as a target to lure enemy fire away from Jackson]
Sgt. Horvath: Captain, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset!
Capt. Miller: I thought you were my mother!

View Quote Pvt. Reiben: You want to explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense in risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?
Capt. Miller: Anyone wanna answer that?
Medic Wade: Hey Reiben, think about the poor bastard's mother.
Pvt. Reiben: Hey, Wade, I got a mother, you got a mother, the sarge has got a mother. Shit, 'll bet that even the Captain's got a mother. [Reiben looks questioningly at Captain Miller] Well, maybe not the Captain, but the rest of us have got mothers.