Sailors Quotes

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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
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
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
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
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. — H.G. Wells
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. — Jon Anderson
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
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
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
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
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. — Enoch Powell
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
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
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
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
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. — Ronald Reagan
The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money. — Tom Feeney
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
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
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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