Navy Quotes · Page 9

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

— Bill Nye

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Tony Curtis

Like in combat when you're in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.

— Vitor Belfort

My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.

— David Robinson

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount,…

— Graham Chapman

I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds…

— Mark Hadlow

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last…

— Joseph Stalin

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and…

— Tariq Ali

A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the…

— Noam Chomsky

Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in…

— Mike Quigley

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know…

— Amanda Schull

ESPN Zone was probably the coolest thing I could do [making "Hardball"]. But Navy Pier was the other thing. I'd take my…

— Michael B. Jordan

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They…

— Harry S Truman

I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit,…

— Tyrese Gibson

You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have…

— Barack Obama

It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can…

— P. W. Singer

We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling,…

— Saeb Erekat

“This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I…

— Anonymous

“The Guardian's Wildchild: Lorna tossed used linen onto the floor and snapped fresh sheets into place on the bed. She fluffed pillows…

— Feather Stone

We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy…

— John Keegan

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they…

— Edmund Burke

I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy…

— Alan G. Poindexter

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

— Marc Garneau

The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and…

— Yakubu Gowon

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

— Don Rickles

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

— Katy Perry

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

— Roger Stone

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the…

— Anonymous

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

— Abraham Lincoln

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the…

— Hillary Clinton

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

— Harry Mathews

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed…

— Prince Philip

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

— Chris Pratt

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

— Grover Cleveland

“Members of every major street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist group have been found in a number of military branches.”

— Carter F. Smith

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

— Graham Chapman

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating…

— William Blackstone

I served as a Russian policy officer in the U.S. Navy and worked to implement our nuclear agreements with the Russian Federation.

— Mikie Sherrill