Loyalty Quote by Mabel Beebe

“Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.”

— Carsten Jensen

“Fisher said, “to be a good admiral, a man does not need to be a good sailor. That’s a common mistake. He needs good…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“The Seaman’s Practice,”

— Bill Bryson

“Keep a good ship,' his father had always said, and by that you should run your company, and your family as if it was…

— Matt Suddain

“The death of this honorable man upon this battlefield leaves all of us the poorer for his loss, yet so much the richer for…

— Walter C. Conner

“Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed…

— John Colville

“Even captains were pawns to the lords of the sea, who moved them – and sacrificed them – wither they would.”

— M. Kei

“having coauthored The Wrong Guys: False Confessions and the Norfolk Four, a book about four U.S. Navy sailors who, under intense police pressure and…

— Beverly Lowry

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The troops also edged toward that timeless state common to veteran armies in which the men trusted no one less wretched than themselves. Still…

— Rick Atkinson

“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their…

— Joseph Conrad

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle…

— John Tyler