Naval Quotes

81 Naval quotes by 62 unique authors

Over the years, I've had a lot of different jobs - newspaper boy, dish washer, naval flight officer, Amtrak board member, Governor and chairman of… — Thomas Carper
I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate. — Jimmy Buffett
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength. — Frederick Lenz
Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the… — Frederick Lenz
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased — John James Audubon
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate… — Josephus Daniels
The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon… — Winston Churchill
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time… — Frank B. Kellogg
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and… — Frank B. Kellogg
Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close… — Camille Paglia
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. — Alan Shepard
I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm… — Daniel Handler
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,… — John Adams
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. — Winston Churchill
Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it… — James Patterson
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval… — Isoroku Yamamoto
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. — Patrick O'Brian
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of… — Jose Andres Puerta
The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold… — Annie Jacobsen
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence. — Christopher Lee
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968… — Jim Webb
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in… — Mark Kelly

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