Naval History Quotes

#1. The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

Bernard Brodie

#2. I do not approve of naval historians who seek out flaws in the losers' battle plans and tactics. The way to profit from history is to put oneself in the shoes of the tactical decision maker as he confronts a many-faceted problem in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

Wayne Hughes

#3. The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

Linda Conrad

#4. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

John Colville

#5. All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

Karen Chamberlain

#6. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

John Wayne

#7. Trying to be hot, but looking not

Akanksha Sharma

#8. Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

Toni Cade Bambara

#9. The dangers of the sea should always take precedence
over the violence of the enemy'
Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Ben Bryant

#10. I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

Alex Pettyfer

#11. I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

Julia Ward Howe

#12. At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,

James F. Cooper

#13. I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

John D. Long

#14. I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#15. If I burned them, I became as one of those who think that ideas are dangerous and should be destroyed.

Philippa Gregory

#16. You're a Scott," the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting.
"And you're Irish. I'm so glad we got that settled.

Donna Grant

#17. Success with Honor

Allen Meece

#18. The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.

Arthur Nicholson

#19. Always be yourself and speak your truth. Better to allow others to walk away than betray your own soul.

Tonya Sheridan