Quotes and Sayings About Navy
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I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
-- Marc Garneau -
To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.
-- Marcus Luttrell -
If you are to use Alexander Graham Bell’s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words ‘Ahoy, ahoy’. Nobody knows why he insisted this – he had no connection to the navy – but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying ‘Hello’. This seems unfair.
-- Mark Forsyth -
I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.
-- Michael Arad -
The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.
-- Michael Biehn -
I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good
-- Michael Mullen -
Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.
-- Michael Savage -
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.
-- Mitsuo Fuchida -
In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.
-- Nicholas Rodger -
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
-- Nick Offerman -
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?†asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?†the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.
-- Noam Chomsky -
What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.
-- Oswald Pohl -
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
-- Paul Berg -
I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
-- Peter Berg -
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.
-- Peter Bergen -
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
-- Rand Beers -
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.
-- Ray Mabus -
I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.
-- Rick Scott -
There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.
-- Robin Williams -
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
-- Sean Connery -
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
-- Shimon Peres -
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
-- Simon Newcomb -
So sucker MC's, please think twice; Would you join the navy if you didn't like the gravy and rice?
-- Special Ed -
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
-- Stephen Harper -
It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
-- Steve Jobs -
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
-- Susan Orlean -
Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.
-- Suzanne Brockmann -
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
-- Tony Curtis
