Born on the Fourth of July (film) Quotes

Born on the Fourth of July (film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Born on the Fourth of July completed its run in 1970.

It features A. Kitman Ho, and Oliver Stone as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Robert Richardson (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Born on the Fourth of July (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Born on the Fourth of July (film) is 145 minutes long. Born on the Fourth of July (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

Born on the Fourth of July (film) Quotes

• (Chaplain - Vietnam) "How are you?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Tell them; they have to operate on me. There's something wrong with me."
• (Chaplain - Vietnam) "The doctors are real busy right now. There's a lot of wounded here today. No time for anything except trying to stay alive, so you got to try and stay alive, okay? You hear me? Try and stay alive."
• (Chaplain - Vietnam) "I've come to give you your last rites. Are you ready?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Yeah."
• (Chaplain - Vietnam) "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. You brught nothing into this world, and it is certain that you will take nothing out of it. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."

• (Ron Kovic) "I had a mother; I had a father, things; things that made sense. Do you remember things that made sense? Things you could count on? Before we all got so lost? What are we gonna do, Charlie? What am I gonna do?"

• (Steve Boyer) "You could start out as a cashier -- and then work your way up to becoming a manager of one of these places; just like your dad."
• (Ron Kovic) "I get $1700 a month from the government. I think I'm just going to lay low, and look around --"
• (Steve Boyer) "That's charity money, Ronnie; this isn't."
• (Ron Kovic) "Charity?"
• (Steve Boyer) "All I'm saying is that you got to; you got to put the war behind you, you know; you got to forget about this chair you're in."
• (Ron Kovic) "Sometimes, Stevie, I think people, they know you're back from Vietnam, and their face; changes: the eyes, the voice, the way they look at you, you know."
• (Steve Boyer) "I know what you mean, Ronnie, but people here; they don't give a s*** about the war. Yeah. To them it's just a million miles away. It's all bulls***, anyway. I mean, the government sold us a bill of goods and we bought it, and got the s*** kicked out of us, and for what, huh?"
• (Ron Kovic) "What do you mean, "we," Stevie? You were in college, man."
• (Steve Boyer) "You bought that Communist bulls***, Ronnie. Yeah, they were going to take over the world, you remember that? Fenelli, you, Walsh; the whole town was devastated."
• (Steve Boyer) "For what? For lies, for bulls*** lies?"

• (Mrs. Kovic) "Don't say penis in this house."
• (Ron Kovic) "Penis. Penis. Big f***ing erect penis, Mom."

• (Ron Kovic) "This place is a f***in' slum."
• (Marvin) "You want out of here, man? Fine. We take that leg of yours, and we can get you out of here in two weeks."
• (Ron Kovic) "I want my leg."
• (Marvin) "Why?"
• (Ron Kovic) "I want my leg."
• (Marvin) "Why? You can't feel it no how."
• (Ron Kovic) "(incredulous and angry) It's my leg. I want my leg, you understand? Can't you understand that? All's I'm sayin' is that I want to be treated like a human being. I fought for my country. I am a Vietnam veteran. I fought for my country."
• (Unnamed) "Shut the f*** up."
• (Ron Kovic) "And I think that I deserve to be treated -- decent."

• (Jamie Wilson - Georgia) "What's done is done, sir. I can't ever forgive you -- but maybe the Lord can."
• (Mrs. Wilson) "We understand, Ron. We understand the pain you've been going through."

• (Lieutenant - Vietnam) "It wasn't your fault, god**** it. They got in the god**** way."

• (Unnamed) "We want to make one thing very clear to you, Ron. The possibility of your ever walking again is minimal -- almost impossible. You're a T6; paralyzed from the mid-chest down. Probably -- you'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. (pause) Do you understand what I'm saying?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Well, doctor --"
• (Unnamed) "Hmm?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Doctor, will I ever be able to; to have children?"
• (Unnamed) "No."
• (Unnamed) "No, but we have a good psychologist. He's helped a lot of people."
• (Ron Kovic) "I'll walk again."
• (Unnamed) "No you won't --"
• (Ron Kovic) "No, I know I'll walk again."
• (Unnamed) "No, let me tell you something, Ron. You will NEVER walk again."

• (Ron Kovic) "I'm a Vietnam veteran, I'm here tonight to say, this war is wrong, this government lied to me, lied to my brothers, the people in this country tricked us into going thirteen thousand miles to fight a war against poor peasant people who have a proud history of resistance who have been struggling for their own independence for one thousand years, the Vietnamese people, I can't find the words to express how the leadership of this country sickens me, people say "if you don't love America, then get the hell out," well I love America we love the people of America very much but when it comes to the government it stops right there, the government are a bunch of corrupt thieves, they are rapists and robbers, and we are here to say "we don't have to take it anymore", we are here to tell the truth, they are killing our brothers in Vietnam, this wheelchair, our wheelchairs, this steel, our steel is your Memorial Day on wheels, we are your Yankee Doodle Dandy come home."

• (Charlie - Villa Dulce) "The bitch thinks it's funny I can't move my dick."

• (Mrs. Kovic) "Ronnie, Ronnie, you're doing the right thing. Communism has to be stopped. It's God's will that you go, and I'm proud of you."
• (Mrs. Kovic) "Just be careful, that's all."
• (Ron Kovic) "Don't you know what it means to me to be a Marine, Dad? Ever since I was a kid I've wanted this; I've wanted to serve my country; and I want to go. I want to go to Vietnam; and I'll die there if I have to."

• (Ron Kovic) "When I was in the hospital, I thought, yeah; yeah, this makes sense."
• (Timmy Burns) "What makes sense?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Because I failed, Timmy."
• (Timmy Burns) "What are you talking about?"
• (Ron Kovic) "Because I; I killed some; people; I made some terrible; mistakes."
• (Timmy Burns) "Oh, for Christ's sake, Ronnie, we all made mistakes. I mean, you; you had no choice. That's something that those god**** pansy demonstrators ain't never gonna understand. Now, you don't even have to talk about it, Ronnie; I mean, it was insane over there. It was crazy."
• (Ron Kovic) "Sometimes I wish, I wish I'd; The first time I got hit, I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I mean; who gives a f*** now if I was a hero or not? I was paralyzed, castrated that day; why? It was all so; stupid. I'd have my dick and my balls now, and some days, Timmy; some days I think I'd give everything I believe in; everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I'm not whole; I never will be, and that's; that's the way it is, isn't it?"
• (Timmy Burns) "For Christ's sake, Ronnie, it's your birthday. You're alive. You made it. Smile."

• (Ron Kovic) "Am I good? Hey"
• (Ron Kovic) ", am I good?"
• (Willie) "Man, you're one crazy Marine, Kovic; so gung-ho and everything, but you don't know s*** about what's really happenin' in this country."
• (Ron Kovic) "f*** you, Willie."
• (Willie) "I'm serious man. It ain't about burnin' the flag and Vietnam, man. While we fight for rights over there, we ain't got no rights at home. It's about Detroit and Newark, man. It's about racism, man."
• (Ron Kovic) "Is that right?"
• (Willie) "Because you can't get no job at home. Vietnam is a white man's war, a rich man's war."
• (Ron Kovic) "(contemptuously) Where's my money?"
• (Willie) "I'm serious, man, you gotta read some books. There's a revolution going on, Kovic. Brothers are gettin' it together, and if you ain't part of the solution, man, then you're part of the problem."

• (Steve Boyer) "You probably think it's just a hamburger. A patty's just a piece of meat, but it can have character. See that doughnut hole? Gets 18 patties to the pound instead of 16. Saves me about $40,000 a year. That's serious money, Ron. I plug the hole with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spices. I cover it with a pickle. They'll never miss a thing."

• (Ron Kovic) "They burned the flag and they demonstrated against us; it's on the cover of the paper today. They have no respect. They have no idea what's going on over there, Mom; the men that are sacrificing their lives. People are dying every day over there, and nobody back here even seems to care. It's a bunch of god**** s*** if you ask me."
• (Mrs. Kovic) "Ronnie, don't take the Lord's name in vain; not in front of the children. I agree with everything you say."
• (Ron Kovic) "I served my country; and they just want to take from it; just take, take. Love it or leave it, that's what I think."

• (Ron Kovic) "We went to Vietnam to stop communism --. We shell women and children."
• (Mrs. Kovic) "You didn't shoot women and children. What are you saying?"
• (Ron Kovic) "That was the war, communism, the incidious evil. They told us to go."
• (Mrs. Kovic) "Yes, yes that's what they told us."
• (Ron Kovic) "Thou shalt not kill, Mom. Thou shalt not kill women and children. Thou shalt not kill. Remember? Isn't that what you taught us? Isn't that what they taught us?"
• (Mrs. Kovic) "Stop it. Stop it."

• (Ron Kovic) "People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America."

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