Navy Quotes - Page 13

• The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Naval Warfare, Transition, Submarines

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• I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Men, Wonderful Friends, Years

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• Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. "This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing." He reached around her and fingered the soft material. "Where is the rest of it?" He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing.

  Christine Feehan

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

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• O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Army, Power

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

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• There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

  Daniel Inouye

  Fundraising, World Government, Air

  Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.

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• 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

  Marine, Air, Years

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• 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

  Philosophy, Nice, Three

  "Fictional character: Parry". "The Fisher King", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Crazy, People

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• If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.

  Thomas Paine

  Ocean, Thinking, Reflection

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• The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  Army, British Navy, Royal

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• What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Military, Army

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• The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

  Sean O'Casey

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sean O'Casey (1973). “Sunset and evening star”, Pan

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• The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Military, War, Air

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• I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Blessed, Command

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• If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

  Sun Tzu

  Money, Military, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Peace, War, Army

  "Memories". Book by Admiral 'Jacky' Fisher, p. 18, 1919.

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• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Humorous

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• I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Dog, Yankees, Texas

  George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

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• Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Badass, Cds, Listening

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Military, Eye

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

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• Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Odds, Seven Months, Two

  Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

  Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

  Military, Believe, Army

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• To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

  Giulio Douhet

  Military, War, Mean

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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