| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 42702 |
| QUOTATION: | The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Frank S. Nugent (19081965), U.S. screenwriter, Laurence Stallings, and John Ford. Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
Commenting on the permanence of the army. Based on the story War Party by James Warner Bellah. |
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