Band of Brothers Quotes

Richard Winters: Harry, fire's not a good idea.
Harry Welsh: Just a couple of minutes. We're in a dell.
Richard Winters: A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?
Cpt. Nixon: I swear I thought I could smell a fire... I DID smell a fire. Are you out of your mind?
Richard Winters: Well,

we're in a dell.
Cpt. Nixon: Huh?

Frank Perconte: Hey Luz, how far are we going?
George Luz: Oh, Jesus, Frank, I don't know. Until they tell us to stop.
Donald Hoobler: High ground. There's high ground up ahead.
Frank Perconte: Okay, genius. Answer me this, then. How come Easy Company is the only company who's either at the front of an

advance, or, like now, exposed at the far edge of the line?
Donald Hoobler: To keep you on your toes.
Frank Perconte: No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, we're never in the middle. And we're the fifth of nine companies in this regiment. Able to Item. Think of it.

Frank Perconte: How was your jump?
Pvt. Albert Blithe: Well, missed the DZ
Frank Perconte: Yeah, that goes without saying.
Pvt. Albert Blithe: I guess.
Frank Perconte: Got any souvenirs to trade?
Pvt. Albert Blithe: Huh?
Frank Perconte:

[shows an armful of wristwatches] They're all ticking, unlike their previous owners.

David Webster: Lieb, I fucking hate this.
Joseph Liebgott: Oh, Jesus Christ. They fingered him! I was in the fucking room, Web! One of those Polacks what was in the slave camps said this is where the guy lives, right here.
[points at house]
David Webster: Which camp?
Joseph Liebgott: Whatever camp! I'm

under direct orders and I'm happy to follow them!
[Liebgott and Sisk get out of the jeep. Liebgott cocks his pistol. Webster hesitates, then runs after them]
David Webster: Is this a personal thing, Joe?
Joseph Liebgott: What?
David Webster: Is this personal to you?
Joseph Liebgott: No, it's a

goddamn order.
David Webster: Does Major Winters know about this?
Joseph Liebgott: [smiles coldly] Doesn't matter here.
David Webster: Oh, the fuck it doesn't! What if this guy's just a soldier? What if he's an officer with no ties to the SS? What if he's innocent?
Joseph Liebgott: You know what? What

if he's a fucking Nazi commandant of a fucking slave camp?
David Webster: Which one? Which camp? You don't have any proof!
Joseph Liebgott: Were you at Landsberg?
David Webster: You know I was.
Joseph Liebgott: You think this guy's a soldier like you and me? A fucking innocent German officer?

[contemptuously]
Joseph Liebgott: Where the hell have you been the past three years?

Cpt. Nixon: What do you think I should write these parents, Dick?
Richard Winters: Hear what I said, Nix? You've been demoted.
Cpt. Nixon: Yeah, demoted, gotcha. Because I don't know how to tell them their kids never made it out of the goddamn plane.
Richard Winters: You tell them what you always tell them:

their sons died as heroes.
Cpt. Nixon: [cynically] You really still believe that?
Richard Winters: [pauses, considering] Yeah. Yeah, I do.
[Challenges]
Richard Winters: Don't you?
Cpt. Nixon: [chuckles, uncertainly]

Pvt. Ralph Spina: [Spina and Heffron get lost in the woods of Bastogne while looking for medical supplies] Hey Babe... where the hell are we?
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: [Heffron stops and looks around] This way.
Pvt. Ralph Spina: I don't like it.
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: Where the hell is Third Battalion?

[he abruptly steps into a snow-covered foxhole]
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Shit!
[he starts laughing]
German Soldier: Hinkel?
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Come on!
German Soldier: Hinkel, ist du?
Pvt. Ralph Spina: [Heffron and Spina realize they've accidentally walked through German lines]
[whispering]

Pvt. Ralph Spina: Come on! Come on, come on!
German Soldier: *Hinkel*!
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: [whispering] Gimme a hand!
[Spina helps Heffron out of the foxhole]
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: Go! Go!
German Soldier: Schiesse!
[the German pops out of the foxhole and starts shooting at them]

Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: Come on, Spina, move! Move!
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Come on, come on!

Sgt. Alton More: I'm guessing they were Hitler's photo albums, sir. Sure had a lot of pictures of him in it.
Ronald Spiers: So, you looked at 'em, but you didn't take 'em?
Sgt. Alton More: That's right, sir.
Ronald Spiers: I don't believe you! I'll be watching you. You're dismissed.
[as Moore leaves,

smirking]
Ronald Spiers: You'd better not be lying to me.

Cpl. Donald Hoobler: Down he goes, right out of his saddle like a sack of potatoes. Outstanding accuracy on my part if I do say so myself.
Lipton: But you do.
Cpl. Donald Hoobler: Which I do. Hell, Shifty, I think maybe I could've even given you a run for your money.
SSgt. Darrel 'Shifty' Powers: No, No, I'm

not a good shot. Now Dad, he was an excellent shot - excellent, I declare. He could shoot the wings off a fly.

Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: You know he told me he was a goddamn virgin?
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Who?
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: Replacement in my foxhole, Julian.
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Yeah?
Pvt. Edward 'Babe' Heffron: Goddamn virgin, just a kid.
Pvt. Ralph Spina: Only

virgin I know is the Virgin Mary.
[Heffron laughs]