Navy Quotes
On fleets, sailors, and life after service.
This page gathers historical and personal reflections on naval life, from early arguments over building a competitive fleet to sharp observations about class divides among sailors. For related themes, see the American quotes page.
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
Able Quotes
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
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.
I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.
My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect from an artist.
About Quotes
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.
Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.
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.
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but...
American Quotes
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.
I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it?
Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.
Anything Quotes
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
