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  • I'm glad I was in the Navy. -- Yogi Berra
  • No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping. -- Frank Knox
  • A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. -- Alexander Graham Bell
  • The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates. -- Howard E. Wasdin
  • I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. -- Sean Connery
  • Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it. -- Don Rickles
  • When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. -- Dick Gregory
  • It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • 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. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? -- Mark Hadlow
  • 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. -- William Blackstone
  • I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities. -- Tony Curtis
  • 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. -- Katy Perry
  • The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
  • The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
  • 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. -- Gordon Bethune
  • Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. -- Camille Paglia
  • I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy. -- John F. Kennedy
  • 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. -- Ernest Borgnine
  • 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. -- Peter L. Bergen
  • Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation. -- Robin Hayes
  • Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • ...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America! -- John Paul Jones
  • I grew up in a Navy family. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • The Navy is very old and very wise. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946. -- Daniel J. Evans
  • I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy -- Steve Jobs
  • I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy. -- Willie Aames
  • Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. -- David Attenborough
  • I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. -- Daniel J. Evans
  • Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy -- David Nicholls
  • McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster. -- Sidney Sheinberg
  • I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. -- Jack Adams
  • My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- Dave Van Ronk
  • The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
  • I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman. -- Eric Massa
  • I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat. -- Billy Casper
  • I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good -- Michael Mullen
  • We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016]. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. -- Tony Curtis
  • The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way. -- Suzanne Brockmann
  • In the Navy, there is no wrong hole. In the Marines, there is always a hole. -- George Carlin
  • The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm. -- Jimmy Doolittle
  • I've always been fascinated with Navy SEALs in general and their role in Afghanistan in particular. -- Christopher McQuarrie
  • I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21. -- Rick Scott
  • It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy. -- Yoshijiro Umezu
  • I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training. -- Chris Pratt
  • Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy! -- Henny Youngman
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  • Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues. -- Bob Feller
  • I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training. -- Michelle Rodriguez
  • The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present. -- Chris Kyle
  • My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. -- Adam Driver
  • I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. -- John D. Long
  • I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. -- John D. Long
  • The United States Navy carries the might and the mission of America to the farthest parts of the world. -- George W. Bush
  • If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year. -- Bobby Bowden
  • What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. -- Ernest Bevin
  • I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. -- Peter Berg
  • This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July. -- Kenneth Anger
  • I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. -- Marc Garneau
  • The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that. -- Bill Nye
  • We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right. -- Wendell Mayes
  • I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts. -- Daniel Woodrell
  • I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. -- Tony Curtis
  • I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. -- Barney Ross
  • My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons. -- James Mercer
  • I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried. -- Don Rickles
  • But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. -- Paul Berg
  • It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition. -- Theophilus London
  • 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. -- Howard E. Wasdin
  • My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy. -- Christy Lemire
  • The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis. -- Karl Donitz
  • 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. -- Ray Mabus
  • The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled. -- Rand Beers
  • The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood. -- Albert F. Pratt
  • The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis. -- Karl Dönitz
  • I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. -- Narendra Modi
  • In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't. -- Jon Bon Jovi
  • 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. -- Babette March
  • I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. -- RJ Mitte
  • You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. -- Barack Obama
  • When better screening certain Muslim immigrants first came up, one of the big defenders was Carl Higbie. He's a former Navy Sean and a [Donald] Trump supporter. -- Megyn Kelly
  • Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination. -- Richard Reeves
  • I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines. -- Jim Webb
  • Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me. -- Jeremiah Denton
  • 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. -- Brad Goreski
  • When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
  • When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!' -- John F. Kennedy
  • I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one. -- Jesse Ventura
  • I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. -- Nick Offerman
  • We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. We right now only have 276 ships, and it's not enough. -- Donald Trump
  • And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy. -- David Frum
  • I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air. -- John S. McCain, Jr.
  • Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant. -- Jonathan Demme
  • My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill. -- Thomas Friedman
  • 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
  • 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. -- Eric Morecambe
  • The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory. -- Winston Churchill
  • 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. -- Suzanne Brockmann
  • I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends. -- Ernest Borgnine
  • My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense starting with Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. -- Donald Trump
  • I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I. -- Donald Trump
  • The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back. -- David Walliams
  • You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists. -- Bryan Fischer
  • Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget. -- Mike Quigley
  • The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.' -- William Golding
  • Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy. -- Kiesza
  • 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. -- James Young
  • 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
  • I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. -- James A. Michener
  • I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service, ... It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America. -- John McCain
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