Navy Quotes - Page 14

• Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Block, Islamic

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• By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Air, Majority

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.

  James A. Michener

  Children, Couple, War

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• All I asked was, where do I sign? Some of the other navy men said I was rooting for the war to last forever. (after Browns gave him a monthly stipend during the war)

  Otto Graham

  Football, War, Men

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• And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Army, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• 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

  Men, Ignorant, Problem

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Marine, Army, Thinking

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• And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Engineering, Choices, Training

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• I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

  Daniel J. Evans

  July

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• Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Children, Shopping

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.17, St. Martin's Griffin

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• And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

  Harry Mathews

  Years, Sophomore, Middle

  Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.

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• It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots," I said. "And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Blue, Doubt

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.554, Hachette UK

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• We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

  Eric Morecambe

  Brother, Comedy, Dave

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts.

  Patrick Grant

  Blue, People, Black

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.

  Christy Lemire

  Kids, Hoodies, Cards

  "Review: 'Identity Thief' has no charge" by Christy Lemire, www.yahoo.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Country, Heart, Long

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• I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Uncles, Smart, Stupid

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

  Saeb Erekat

  Army, Air, People

  Interview With Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Army, Hypocrisy, World

  Look Homeward, Angel pt. 3, ch. 36 (1929) SeeWoodrowWilson 15

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• Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

  Saeb Erekat

  Army, Air, Economy

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  Arleigh Burke

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.

  Pam Brown

  Cat, Fighting, Men

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• I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

  Ryan Zinke

  Football, Country, Growing Up

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: ‘Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.

  Pete Olson

  Communication, Responsibility, Cities

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, America, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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