Top 100 Naval Quotes

#1. A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

Dick Gregory

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#2. Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

Nicholas Rodger

Naval Quotes #9756
#3. Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.

Ralph Raico

Naval Quotes #15016
#4. Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

Naval Ravikant

Naval Quotes #20918
#5. I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

Wally Schirra

Naval Quotes #29804
#6. As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Michael Mullen

Naval Quotes #45650
#7. 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

Naval Quotes #55667
#8. 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

Naval Quotes #111936
#9. I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?

Peter Berg

Naval Quotes #137582
#10. Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Camille Paglia

Naval Quotes #146565
#11. We settled in a booth at Bishop's 4th Street Diner, an aging silver zeppelin on the rotary outside the naval base, grungy and stuffed with Betty Boop tchotchkes in the windows. The waitress greeted Abbass familiarly and promptly took her order: a hamburger, rare, and fries.

Marilyn Johnson

Naval Quotes #178309
#12. I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

Naval Ravikant

Naval Quotes #181153
#13. The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Jose Andres

Naval Quotes #182709
#14. Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

Naval Ravikant

Naval Quotes #197459
#15. Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

Al Gore

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#16. There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Naval Quotes #251680
#17. There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Fredrik Bajer

Naval Quotes #269170
#18. I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.

Lemony Snicket

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#19. The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,

Shashi Tharoor

Naval Quotes #319088
#20. Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Christopher Lee

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#21. 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

Naval Quotes #359726
#22. floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital, sick with duodenal

Walter Isaacson

Naval Quotes #374094
#23. I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Peter Berg

Naval Quotes #381616
#24. The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Patrick O'Brian

Naval Quotes #384693
#25. Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

Frederick Lenz

Naval Quotes #393365
#26. As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

Matt Blunt

Naval Quotes #443968
#27. At Naval Air Station Grosse Ile in Michigan, he and Barbara took a room in town for fourteen dollars a week, but without kitchen privileges. "It is sort of a lonely existence for poor Bar," Bush wrote home to Greenwich, "but she doesn't complain at all, and I am just in heaven having her here.

Jon Meacham

Naval Quotes #445485
#28. A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Naval Quotes #454604
#29. The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

Jeremy Corbyn

Naval Quotes #469787
#30. Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Bob Hope

Naval Quotes #478498
#31. 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

Naval Quotes #480428
#32. All family stories are important, just as all people are important, and they deserve to be passed along.

Karen Chamberlain

Naval Quotes #488499
#33. Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Naval Quotes #488877
#34. France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

Frank B. Kellogg

Naval Quotes #489682
#35. I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

Frank B. Kellogg

Naval Quotes #515921
#36. 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

Naval Quotes #530330
#37. It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

George Washington

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#38. Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Manchester

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#39. For a full minute, our bowels were one with the bowels of the earth--like some nightmare attempt to attach our naval cords again and jerk us back to the womb of creation." -Cecelia Brady describing the earthquake

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#40. My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

Lewis Black

Naval Quotes #594048
#41. A large and ridiculous gunner told me that I looked like an out-of-work chorus boy. He was very startled when I told him that was exactly what I was, but that I found it easier to get work as a naval officer, a job requiring considerably less talent.

William Donaldson

Naval Quotes #604973
#42. I don't actually read a lot of books. I pick up a lot of books and only get through a few, which form the foundation of my knowledge.

Naval Ravikant

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#43. My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Jack Adams

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#44. VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

Nathaniel Fick

Naval Quotes #646891
#45. I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Frank B. Kellogg

Naval Quotes #671926
#46. I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

Mark Hadlow

Naval Quotes #684681
#47. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

Naval Ravikant

Naval Quotes #687185
#48. Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Alan Shepard

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#49. THE NAVAL TREATY

Arthur Conan Doyle

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#50. Alas, all that sound and fury disguised the fact that on Omaha Beach at least, the bombs fell too long, the rockets fell too short, and the naval gunfire was too brief.

Craig L. Symonds

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#51. The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Mark Batterson

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#52. Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Noam Chomsky

Naval Quotes #790597
#53. There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

George Orwell

Naval Quotes #810175
#54. Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#55. A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

Simon Newcomb

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#56. I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

John C. Calhoun

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#57. For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

Nigel Hamilton

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#58. The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.

Henry R. Towne

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#59. Good responded nobly to this tax upon his inventive faculties. Never before had I the faintest conception of the breadth and depth and height of a naval officer's objurgatory powers. For ten minutes he went on in several languages without stopping, and he scarcely ever repeated himself.

H. Rider Haggard

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#60. I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

Chuichi Nagumo

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#61. 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

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#62. Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.

Sarah J. Maas

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#63. I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

Kit Reed

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#64. To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.

Frederick Lenz

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#65. The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall.

Tom Standage

Naval Quotes #1062406
#66. Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

Lynn Montross

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#67. 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

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#68. Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

Dan Quayle

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#69. Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

John James Audubon

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#70. Boarding a ship was one of the riskiest maneuvers in naval combat. It was basically a race between the boarders rushing to the engine room and the collective will of those who had their fingers on the self-destruct button.

James S.A. Corey

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#71. There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.

Robert Cowley

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#72. I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.

George H. W. Bush

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#73. Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

George Washington

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#74. On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

Igor Luksic

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#75. Jesse Jackson's wife was arrested in Puerto Rico while protesting the naval bombings there. Jesse said he was holding a meeting with four of his secretaries to decide what to do and that these meetings could run well into the night.

Jay Leno

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#76. I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

Jimmy Buffett

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#77. Ex Scientia, Tridens
(From knowledge, seapower)

US Naval Academy

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#78. The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.

Bud Grant

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#79. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Josephus Daniels

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#80. It is clear that the flame of True Freedom had passed with naval supremacy and constitutional, consultative government from the United Provinces to Great Britain, where it was regarded with quite as much national pride.

Peter Padfield

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#81. After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

James Tobin

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#82. The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Alex Morrison

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#83. The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

Jim Webb

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#84. Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.

Nelson Mandela

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#85. The earth is four-fifths water, that's a lot of room to hide, so the great trick of naval warfare has always been to find the enemy before he finds you. You're finished, if you can't do that, and all the courage and sacrifice in the world simply adds up to a lost war.

Alan Furst

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#86. some prominent aviation museums across India including the HAL Museum in Bangalore, the Indian Air Force Museum in Delhi and the Naval Aviation Museum in Goa which are storehouses of information

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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#87. I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Nick Earls

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

John D. Long

Naval Quotes #1312184
#89. 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

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#90. Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

Chuck Pfarrer

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#91. Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

Nigel Hamilton

Naval Quotes #1361833
#92. But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

Paul Cellucci

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#93. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Chester W. Nimitz

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#94. My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.

Pepe Serna

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#95. Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

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#96. Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.

Paul S. Kemp

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#97. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

George Washington

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#98. Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Winston S. Churchill

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#99. Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

Naval Ravikant

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#100. Someone with whom I was unacquainted had turned to me with a military problem, and as I was currently without a state to govern I decided to lend my comrade my support. Thus I spent the following three and a half hours engaged in a naval exercise by the name of "Minesweeper.

Timur Vermes

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