Navy Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.

  Pete Olson

  Growing Up, War, Moving

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• Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

  David Lloyd George

  United States, Lasts, Guinea

  "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. Volume IV". Book by Charles Seymour, 1928.

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• We now have a lack of readiness that is quite scary. We have planes that were - that Harry Truman inaugurated, the B-52. We have - the Navy has been gutted and decimated. The readiness of the Marines is way down.

  Jeb Bush

  Marine, Scary, Harry Truman

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I wanted to join the navy to get some perspective on the world and explore.

  James McAvoy

  Perspective, World, Wanted

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

  William Golding

  Sorry, Fire, People

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• On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

  Ray Mabus

  Military, Ships, Sailor

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• What can I say? If I knew in 1934 what I know now, I would have remained in the navy. I didn't know that this was going to happen and I didn't know that Germany was going to lose the war and be in ruins.

  Oswald Pohl

  War, Germany, Ruins

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

  Yoshijiro Umezu

  Army, Elements, Reactions

  "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.

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• I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy

  Steve Jobs

  Pirate

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• 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

  Jobs, Real, Would Be

  "A Conversation With Dj Qualls". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. April 4, 2003.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The only footwear I need is an inexpensive pair of blue sneakers. They have soft fabric tops and soft rubber-like soles. I get them one size too large so I can wiggle my toes. I feel as free as though I were barefoot! And I can usually get 1,500 miles to a pair. I wear a pair of navy blue socks.There's a reason why I chose navy blue for my wearing apparel-it's a very practical color, doesn't show dirt, and the color blue does represent peace and spirituality.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blue, Color, Sneakers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.56, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Marine, Air, Years

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• I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

  Robert Stone

  Typewriters, Firsts, Handwriting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Country, Children, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.

  John F. Kerry

  America, Vision, President

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• Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

  David Letterman

  Problem, Obesity, Bigs

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• I wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene.

  Lenny Bruce

  Japan, Done, Matter

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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