Advancing Quote by Brad Wilkerson

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as…

— John Paul Jones

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

— Horatio Nelson

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

— Drew Carey

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

— Tony Curtis

Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where…

— Michael Mullen

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all…

— Ernest Borgnine

My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like…

— Ian Harding

“The Navy’s caste system has the reputation of being about as rigid as any in the world. The first thing most Navy officer do…

— Richard Marcinko

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity…

— David Walliams

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“As cadets, we constantly hammered, scraped and wire brushed rusting steel, before applying red lead paint. Most of the paint we used was Navy…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One