Navy Quotes - Page 5

• There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, British Navy, Cannibalism

  "Character: Sir John Cunningham". "Monty Python's Flying Circus", TV Series (1969–1974), "The War Against Pornography", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

  John Masefield

  Home, Sick, Yards

  "Letters of John Masefield to Florence Lamont".

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• I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

  Sean Connery

  School, Scotland, Qualifications

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• The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Believe, Great Day, Changed

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• I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

  Rick Scott

  Men, Firsts, Enlisted

  "Interview with Florida GOP Gov. Nominee Rick Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2010.

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• 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

  Strong, War, Japan

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• I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Army, Thinking, Fields

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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• Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mind, Body, Sailor

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• I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

  RJ Mitte

  Military, Marine, Air

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.

  Samuel Francis Du Pont

  Life, Military, Marine

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• ...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.

  Herbert F. Leary

  Confidence, Beach, Military

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• I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

  Dan Dailey

  Inspirational, Military, Patriotic

  "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.

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• The Marine Corps is proud of the fact that it is a force of combined arms, and it jealously guards the integrity of its air-ground team.

  Keith B. McCutcheon

  Integrity, Military, Team

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• If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

  William Halsey

  War, Air, Sea

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• Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Submarines, Branches

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• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Jail, Sailing

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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• There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Soldier, He Man

  Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sea, Pirate, Criminals

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Courage, Virtue, Generous

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Military, Support

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ocean, World, Empty

  "The Creator". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "The Light-Bearer" (p. 7), 2000.

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• The only color I don't have is navy brown.

  Yogi Berra

  Yankees, Color, Brown

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• It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

  Steve Jobs

  Memorable, Best Job, Pirate

  "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

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