"I'll see you on the beach."

"This Ryan better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb."

"Earn this. Earn it."

"I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel."

"It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles."

"Sir, this entire mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources."

"Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight."

"My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer."

"If you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... pack your bags, boys. War's over."

"Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her."

"The man means nothing to me. He's just a name. But if earning the right to get back to my wife is my mission, then that's my mission."

"I'm a schoolteacher. I teach English composition in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania."

"Your brothers were killed in combat. They're dead."

"Which one, sir?"

"All of them."

"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost."

"That boy is alive. We are gonna send somebody to find him. And we are gonna get him the Hell... outta there."

"You see, when you end up killing one of your men, you tell yourself it happened so you could save the lives of two or three or ten others."

"Do you know how many men I've lost under my command? Ninety-four."

"We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow fucking orders!"

"You want to explain the math of this to me? Where's the sense in risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?"

"Think about the poor bastard's mother."

"Hey, I got a mother, you got a mother, the sarge has got a mother. I'm willing to bet that even the Captain's got a mother."

"Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die."

"What the fuck is that supposed to mean? La-la-la-la-la. We're all supposed to die, is that it?"

"What's FUBAR?"

"Oh, it's German."

"I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a Captain. Gripes go up, not down."

"I'd say this is an excellent mission, sir, with an extremely valuable objective, sir. Worthy of my best efforts, sir."

"I am willing to lay down the lives of me and my men - especially you, Reiben - to ease her suffering."

"He's good."

"I love him."

"Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful mess."

"This time the mission is the man."

"You don't know when to shut up; you don't know HOW to shut up!"

"Tell her that when you found me, I was here, and I was with the only brothers that I have left."

"There's no way I was gonna desert them."

"Every day I think about what you said to me that day on the bridge. And I've tried to live my life the best I could. I hope that was enough."

"Move fast and clear those murder holes. Keep the sand out of your weapons. I'll see you on the beach."

"The seawall! Move up to the seawall!"

"Every inch of this beach has been pre-sighted! You stay here, you're dead men!"

"Right where we're supposed to be, but no one else is!"

"Nobody's where they're supposed to be!"

"This is not enough."

"They're killing us! And we don't have a fucking chance, and that ain't fair!"

"That's quite a view."

"Yes it is. Quite a view."

"Captain, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset."

"I thought you were my mother."

"We're going on a public relations mission."

"You're going to be sent home wrapped in an American flag with a hunk of cheese in your ass, Caparzo."

"Every time you salute the captain you make him a target for the Germans. Capisce?"

"Don't ever fucking touch me with those dirty little rat claws again."

"What's your book about?"

"It's about the bonds of brotherhood developed between soldiers during war."

"Brotherhood? What do you know about brotherhood?"

"We stopped the bleeding! We stopped the bleeding!"

"Fuck! Just give us a fucking chance you son of a bitch!"

"All that for a general?"

"One man."

"Lot of that going around."

"FUBAR."

"Y'all got that right."

"I looked up 'fubar' in the German dictionary and there's no fubar in here."

"I think of my hammock in the backyard or my wife pruning the rosebushes in a pair of my old work gloves."

"Tell me about your wife and those rosebushes?"

"No, no that one I save just for me."

"These guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard."

"Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag?"

"Things have taken a turn for the surreal."

"The world has taken a turn for the surreal."

"This Ryan better be worth it. He better go home and cure some disease."

"I wouldn't trade ten Ryans for one Vecchio or one Caparzo."

"The bottom of the channel, Sarge, the bitch tried to drown me."

"Find a replacement."

"I had a hard on the size of the statue of liberty."

"Calm down. When you're over there, if you see anything that upsets you, think of these."

"The Statue of Liberty is kaput - that's disconcerting."

"My family is with me today. They wanted to come with me."

"I hope that at least in your eyes, I've earned what all of you have done for me."

"James Francis Ryan of Iowa?"

"James Frederick Ryan, Minnesota."

"Does that mean my brothers are OK?"

"Yeah, I'm sure they're fine."

"THUNDER!"

"Flash! Come on in."

"Let me get this goddam hitchhiker out of my boot."

"Sir, I have an opinion on this matter."

"Reiben, pay attention. THIS is the way to gripe."

"God gave me a special gift, fashioned in me a fine instrument of warfare."

"That's brilliant, bumpkin."

"I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care."

"That's how you rationalize making the choice between the mission and the man."

"We have orders and we are to follow those orders, and that supersedes everything, including our mothers."

"Even if you think the mission's FUBAR?"

"Especially if you think the mission's FUBAR."

"I was gonna take 'em fishing when we got home."

"My brothers are still in grammar school."

"Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department..."

"James... earn this."