- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Wait until you see it.
- Norman Ellison: See what?
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: What a man can do to another man.
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Here's a Bible verse I think about sometimes. Manytimes. It goes: And I heard the voice of Lord saying: Whom shall I send and who will go for Us? And... I said: Here am I , send me!
- Norman Ellison: [Mumbling] Send me.
- Wardaddy: Book of Isaiah, Chapter six.
- Wardaddy: I started this war killing Germans in Africa. Then France. Then Belgium. Now I'm killing Germans in Germany. It will end, soon. But before it does, a lot more people gotta die.
- Wardaddy: If a man loves the world, the love of the Father ain't in him. For all in the eyes, the pride of life, is not of the Father. But of the world.
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: The world and its desires pass away. But he who does God's will lives forever.
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: In France, we hit the beach right after D-Day and fought through all those fucking hedgerows. We finally broke out into open country. And bypassed all these Kraut divisions. We linked up with the Canadians and British and trapped an entire Kraut Army pulling back to Germany. We fucked them up. With planes and artillery. Dead Krauts and horses and busted up tanks and cars for miles. Miles. Your eyes see it but your head can't make no sense of it. We go in there. And for three whole days we shot wounded horses. All day long. Sun up to sundown. Putting down horses. Hot summer days. Ain't smelled nothing like it. The sound of it. Those fucking horses screaming. Black clouds of flies buzzing. Like being in a giant bee hive.
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: Vamonos, cabron, vamonos.
- Wardaddy: Hey, you want to talk Mexican? Join another tank, a Mexican tank. This is an American tank, we talk American.
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: Hey! Hey, start shooting!
- Norman Ellison: But what do I shoot at?
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: The Nazis, dumb fuck!
- Norman Ellison: Sergeant Collier? I think I want to surrender.
- Wardaddy: Please don't. They'll hurt you real bad. And kill you real bad.
- Wardaddy: I'll question him. What's your favorite color? You like chicken or beef? You a good dancer? You like fat girls?
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: You from Missouri?
- Norman Ellison: No.
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: You from Chicago?
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Nah, you're from Arkansas, ain't you?
- Norman Ellison: No, I'm from Pittsburgh...
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Hey, hush up, man, nobody gives a fuck where you're from.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Norman, I'm sorry. You know? I think... I think you're a good man. That's what I think. I think maybe we ain't, but... I think you are. So, just... I wanted to tell you that.
- Wardaddy: I know what I did. He's an SS. They're real assholes. I kill every SS I can. You'd seen what I seen you would too.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Damn son, you're a fighting, fucking, drinking machine!
- Wardaddy: Machine. That's it. That's your war name. I christen thee "Machine."
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: Machine!
- Norman Ellison: You're wounded.
- Wardaddy: Sure am.
- Norman Ellison: Sergeant Collier?
- Wardaddy: My name's Don.
- Norman Ellison: Sorry. Don?
- Wardaddy: Yeah kid?
- Norman Ellison: I'm scared.
- Wardaddy: I'm scared too, son.
- [to Emma]
- Norman Ellison: You see this right here? That is your heart line. You're gonna have one great love in your life.
- Wardaddy: See that? That's a whole city on fire. I bet that's where those bombers were heading. The dying's not done. The killing's not done.
- Norman Ellison: First Sergeant Collier?
- Wardaddy: [turns to face Norman] Maybe. What the fuck are you?
- Norman Ellison: Private Ellison. I was told to report to you. I'm your new assistant driver.
- Wardaddy: [takes a long look at Norman] No, you are not.
- Norman Ellison: Yes, yes, I am...
- Wardaddy: Goddammit! Who told you this?
- Norman Ellison: [pointing] Master Sergeant with the clipboard...
- Wardaddy: Bullshit!
- Norman Ellison: [pointing] Right there, he...
- Wardaddy: What's your name?
- Norman Ellison: Norman.
- Wardaddy: [pause] How long you been in the Army?
- Norman Ellison: [breathes out] Eight weeks.
- Wardaddy: [points to Fury] That's home. Do as you're told. Don't get too close to anyone.
- Trini 'Gordo' Garcia: Don might be crazier than a shithouse rat, but he's solid. We've been together since before Africa. I won't fight with anybody else.
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Me neither. There ain't no crew stayed together like we have, Norman. That's 'cause of him.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: First time we got shot at, down in North Africa? Don done shit his pants full! He stunk up the tank REAL loud!
- Norman Ellison: I've never even seen the inside of a tank. I'm a clerk typist. Was heading to Fifth Corps HQ, and they pulled me off the truck. They sent me here. It's gotta be a mistake.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Mistake? Army don't make mistakes. It wouldn't do.
- Wardaddy: [Wardaddy throws Norman a gun] Boys, take him through that gun.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Alright.
- [Wardaddy turns and leaves]
- Norman Ellison: What... what do I do with this?
- [Travis smacks him across the head]
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Sit up. See that cover?
- Norman Ellison: Yeah.
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Open it.
- [Norman opens the cover]
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Now you killin. Close it up.
- [Norman closes the cover]
- Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis: Now you ain't.
- [Travis chuckles]
- Wardaddy: Boyd, you think Jesus loves Hitler?
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Do I think Jesus loves Hitler? I'd assume so. If Hitler accepted Jesus into his heart and got baptized, he'd be saved. Ain't gonna save him from Man's justice.
- Wardaddy: I had the best Assistant Driver in the entire Ninth Army in that seat. Now I got you. I promised my crew a long time ago I'd keep them alive. You're getting in the way of that. It ain't like the newsreels up front.
- Norman Ellison: Which... Which way is the front?
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Which way is the front?
- [pause]
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Hmm... All around us, kid.
- Wardaddy: [Norman has just killed his first enemy soldiers] Norman. It wasn't nothin,' right?
- Norman Ellison: Come again, Sergeant?
- Wardaddy: Rubbin' out those Heinies. Splashed 'em real good. Wasn't nothin,' right?
- Norman Ellison: [With an odd look in his eyes] Sure, Sergeant. Yeah, it wasn't nothin.' Fact, I kinda liked it.
- Wardaddy: Norman, you cocksucker! Why didn't you take the shot?
- Norman Ellison: Because he was just a kid. I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, Sergeant.
- Wardaddy: [Grabs him by the helmet] You see what a kid can do? Look!
- [looks at Lt. Parker's deceased corpse]
- Wardaddy: That's *your* fault, That's your fuckin' fault. Next German you see with a weapon you rake the dog shit outta em'. I don't care if it's a baby with a butter knife in one hand and momma's titty in the other, you chop him up!
- Norman Ellison: Yes, Sergeant!
- [Wardaddy smacks him in the head]
- Wardaddy: All tanks, this is Wardaddy, looks like I'm it. I'll lead the way.
- [an anti-tank round glances off Peterson's Sherman]
- Sergeant Peterson: [over radio] Just a ricochet. We're okay.
- Wardaddy: Bullshit! That's a Kraut high velocity gun. I can hear it whistling!
- Title Card: In WW2 American tanks were outgunned and out armored by the more advanced German tanks. US tank crewmen suffered staggering losses against the superior enemy vehicles.
- Title Card: It is April 1945. The Allies fight deep in the heart of Nazi Germany, encountering the most fanatical resistance yet. In desperation Hitler declares total war, mobilizing every man, woman and child...
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: I'm done tryin' to convert you heathens. You mind if I continue invading Germany?