Good Navy Quotes

#1. A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Stuart Symington

#3. Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.

David Mitchell

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

David Walliams

#7. I love the Army-Navy surplus store Surplus Value Center. They have really good long underwear and multicolored bandanas, cool camo jackets, and really, really scary-looking knives. If you're into that sort of thing.

Jill Soloway

#8. I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

Ernest Borgnine

#9. I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

Michael Mullen

#10. If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.

Bobby Bowden

#11. When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

Ed Gillespie

#12. I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.

John F. Kennedy

#13. I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.

Ulysses S. Grant

#14. The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

Antony Gormley

#15. I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Josh Hutcherson

#16. You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

Germaine Greer

#17. I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it?

Mark Hadlow

#18. You must be a light unto yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. 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

#20. A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three!

G. Ernest Smith

#21. That is the way of it. - Rooster Cogburn

Charles Portis

#22. Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians
with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds
project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

Bruce Chatwin

#23. In his haste to devour her body, Charlie noticed that Callum hadn't even bothered to remove his jacket and tie.

Beth Ashworth

#24. That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Laurie R. King

#25. Sex does a body good." ...
"I suggest a daily dose then.

Robin Bielman

#26. There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national pride to have to disband it so they turned it into a Coastguard. I think it does a few other bits and bobs too.

Tim FitzHigham

#27. TODAY WORRIED YOU YESTERDAY AND ALL IS WELL.

Matthew Desmond

#28. America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Sarah Palin