Navy Quotations

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

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.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

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.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

There was a moment in time where I was really focused on the Navy and I followed through with it - I passed the test. I was happy with myself because I was accomplishing something and I was really working towards a goal. That was the first true thing I invested my energy in.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

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.

Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.

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

One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

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.

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.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.

I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.

We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

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.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with photos, mementoes from wherever he'd traveled as a Royal Navy gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it turned out. I'd haul it out and go through it time and time again.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

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.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

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

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy.

As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

If people weren't watching, I'd be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, 'Oh, I don't care,' I actually really don't feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.

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We believe that the change (of the carriers) will lead to maintaining the solid presence of the U.S. Navy and contribute to keeping Japan's security and international peace into the future.

When you triple our commitments around the world, while at the same time taking the Army from 14 divisions down to 10... and the Air Force from 17 wings to 13 ... and the Navy from well over 400 ships down toward fewer than 300 -- That Mr. Gore, is

When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.

Whether we visit South Bend, or the game is played on the East Coast, it is of great interest to our collective national audience of Irish fans, Naval Academy alumni and the Navy family at large, ... Two institutions with similar values rekindling a lengthy and well-respected relationship make this game special.

We've always had kids from all over come here. This program has been a magnet for good wrestlers from around the state, but our link with the Navy Juniors program has been pretty good for us the past few years.

We're not allowed to do a lot in here, so we can at least raise a lot of money. Being out of the Navy is a big hole that I'll never be able to fill. I think a lot of the guys here feel the same way.

To open the second facility, she had to pay the last fine (from the Navy Boulevard location).

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.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

What the NOAA letter does is confirm that the Navy analysis is fundamentally flawed.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

We decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players - industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and Air Force - back to the drawing board.

We have quite a rivalry with Navy and, honestly, we just want to beat them. The seeding is a consolation and will give us a confidence boost going in to the tournament, but we want to beat them.

The fact is, the New York Times is a national treasure, like Yosemite or the Navy band. It is not a normal corporation, and it should not be. If you think market-driven journalism is such a great thing, then buy shares in Gannett and subscribe to USA Today.

There is a lot at stake for the Midshipmen because they all want to be a champion. These guys work hard. They all want to get their name on a plaque and become part of Navy boxing history here.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

When I came home on leave, I thought I would surely have changed into a dashing figure... just because I was dressed for the part. But my friends laughed when they saw me in my navy uniform. I guess I must have been a sight, but I didn't realize I looked that silly. And I was so proud to come home in that uniform!

I grew up in a Navy family.

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

Maintaining the presence of the U.S. Navy in the region will contribute to our nation's peace and security,

Old Navy is the one that's really hemorrhaging.

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.

Silicon carbide based semiconductors will play an important role in future U.S. Navy all-electric ships and vehicles as well as many advanced weapons systems.

Silicon Carbide-based semiconductors will play an important role in future Navy all-electric ships and vehicles as well as many advanced weapons systems.

One is still sonar. The Navy is still interested in our production capabilities.

My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms.

Now we own that island, ... It's owned by the U.S. Navy and all we're asking is the same thing I do in my state of Oklahoma when we have a live firing range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Navy looks great in the office and it works at night as well. The best color for a tuxedo isn't black. It's actually midnight blue. And with navy, you have a choice of wearing black or brown shoes and accessories.

Navy is a very physical team that is extremely well-coached. We knew they were going to go at us hard for the full seven minutes. Our guys didn't match their intensity and effort.

Navy has launched an investigation. We don't know who did it. Someone broke into a building and stole it.

Navy got off the starting line much more aggressively than we did. We spent the rest of the race picking up speed and trying to get our bow in front of theirs, but ended up falling short.