Navy Quotes (55 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Amber Le Bon
„Throw out the rule book. If you like wearing navy and black together, wear it; if you like mixing up gold and silver jewellery, mix it. If you like it, wear it - don't care about what anyone else thinks.“
― Amber Le Bon ―
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 Diana Vreeland
„Pink is the navy blue of India.“
― Diana Vreeland ―
Picture of quotation author Buzz Aldrin
„I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.“
― Buzz Aldrin ―
Picture of quotation author Jennifer Morrison
„I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.“
Picture of quotation author Eric Massa
„I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.“
― Eric Massa ―
Picture of quotation author Marc Garneau
„I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.“
― Marc Garneau ―
Picture of quotation author Bernard Hill
„I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.“
― Bernard Hill ―
Picture of quotation author James A. Michener
„I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.“
Picture of quotation author Mark Kelly
„Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.“
― Mark Kelly ―
Picture of quotation author Thomas Babington Macaulay
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Stephanie Courtney
„I'm sort of East Coast, so I like the off-white and the navy blues and the low-key preppy kind of thing.“
Picture of quotation author Daniel J. Evans
„The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.“
― Daniel J. Evans ―
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 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 DJ Qualls
„That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.“
― DJ Qualls ―
Picture of quotation author Susan Orlean
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Alexander Graham Bell
„Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.“
Picture of quotation author Daniel Radcliffe
„I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.“
Picture of quotation author Simon Newcomb
„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 ―

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