Sailors Quotes
97 quotes by 90 authors
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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
— Nicholas Monsarrat
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A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence…
— H. L. Mencken
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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
— H.G. Wells
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
— Jon Anderson
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My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your…
— Johnny Depp
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NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic…
— Vladimir Putin
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one…
— James Bryce
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So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity…
— Emmylou Harris
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Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
— Enoch Powell
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We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy…
— Gunther Rall
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We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors,…
— Patty Murray
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My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft…
— Katherine Page
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If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is…
— Dashiell Hammett
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To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
— Ronald Reagan
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The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.
— Tom Feeney
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from…
— Julian Assange
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Then I figured it would be a good plan to hire a few sailors to work for me, get them out to my yacht, get…
— Carl Panzram
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