Navy Quotes (123 quotes)

Picture of quotation author William Whipple
„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.“
― William Whipple ―
Picture of quotation author Curt Weldon
„Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.“
― Curt Weldon ―
Picture of quotation author Honeysuckle Weeks
„My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with photos, mementoes from wherever he'd traveled as a Royal Navy gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it turned out. I'd haul it out and go through it time and time again.“
Picture of quotation author David Walliams
„The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.“
― David Walliams ―
Picture of quotation author Diana Vreeland
„Pink is the navy blue of India.“
― Diana Vreeland ―
Picture of quotation author Cassie Ventura
„I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.“
― Cassie Ventura ―
Picture of quotation author Harry S Truman
„The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.“
― Harry S Truman ―
Picture of quotation author Hideki Tojo
„The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.“
― Hideki Tojo ―
Picture of quotation author Stuart Symington
„FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.“
Picture of quotation author Stuart Symington
„But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.“
Picture of quotation author Amber Stevens
„My first commercial was an Old Navy commercial where I stood in line in front of a club, and Fran Drescher was in it.“
― Amber Stevens ―
Picture of quotation author Rick Scott
„I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.“
― Rick Scott ―
Picture of quotation author Patricia Schroeder
„We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.“
Picture of quotation author Patricia Schroeder
„My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.“
Picture of quotation author Patricia Schroeder
„The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.“
Picture of quotation author Patricia Schroeder
„One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.“
Picture of quotation author Barney Ross
„I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.“
― Barney Ross ―
Picture of quotation author Don Rickles
„I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.“
― Don Rickles ―
Picture of quotation author Don Rickles
„Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.“
― Don Rickles ―
Picture of quotation author John Edward Redmond
„We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.“

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