Navy Quotes

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been excited about eating and cooking for as long as I can remember.

Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!

If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service. It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world.

Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole.

Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant.