Quotes Tagged "navy"

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying his way into the Navy when he was too young to enlist, my mother marrying this fugitive from the mills when she was too young for marriage. A smart guy, he took every course the Navy offered, aced them all, becoming the youngest chief warrant officer in the service. After Pearl Harbor the Navy needed line officers fast and my dad was suddenly wearing gold stripes. My mother watched and learned, getting good at the ways of this new world. She dressed beautifully. Our quarters were always handsomely fitted out. She and Dad were gracious, well-spoken. They were far from rich, but there were books and there was music and sometimes conversations about the world. We even listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturdays. Still, when I finished high school, their attitudes and the times said that there was little point in further educating a girl. I would take a clerical job until I could find the right junior officer to marry and pursue his career, as helpmeet. If I picked well and worked hard, I might someday be an admiral's wife.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

I walked in, looked around, and the navy recruiter was a really hot brunette, so I signed up with her.

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.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were cannibals. Today, they have representation in the United Nations.

I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.

In 2010, I was an executive officer in the Navy, splitting my time between U.S. headquarters and being deployed to an international location.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

Having witnessed first-hand the prowess of the Western Fleet, I am confident that the Indian Navy is fully capable of defending the nation against any form of threat.

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

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.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.