“- Catherine Wolff: Dad hates the idea that some day he's going to die, simply can't stand it!
- Michael Shayne: Somebody must have told him the good die young.”
Marjorie Weaver - Catherine Wolff
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

- Doug Masters: They look about 15, 16-years-old.
- Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair: That's right. All of them.
- Doug Masters: So I don't know why you're so upset, Chappy. What makes them different than me?
- Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair: Because they're dead, all of them.

Jason Gedrick - Doug Masters
Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair

“I admit to having developed a veneer of callousness, but counting the human cost is a terribly sad business, and no veneer of callousness allows me to escape the truth that back home the news brings anguish and suffering.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you're young, you're a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there... it doesn't matter. You know. The older you get you say, "Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left". Think about it. Thirty-five summers.
Tom Waits - Benny

“In a way you can't kill me, my friend, 'cause I died many, many years ago when I was young.”

Ray Winstone - Beowulf