Quotes About The Naval Academy

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John L. Phillips

#5. Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

Yitzhak Rabin

#7. I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Regina Spektor

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

US Naval Academy

#10. 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

#11. Be careful who influence and inspire your life. Their ways seem like leading to life but the truth is, they lead to eternal death

Ann Marie Aguilar

#12. Oh, and by the way, I sure thought about him a lot for someone I never wanted to see again.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#13. Blackwater USA has already taken in more than $1 billion from the public coffers. All in all, that's not a bad take for Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and a Naval Academy dropout who served less time under the colors of the nation, in uniform, than my most recent pair of boots.

Robert Bateman