#navy

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

— Eric Massa

#congressman #days #i #navy #never

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

— George William Norris

#keep #larger #nation #navy #necessary

The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. ↗

— Michael Oxley

#beyond #corps #cutting-edge #enabled #equipment

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#all things #anything #basically #hardly #head

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

#alive #even #ever #examination #father

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

— Barney Ross

#before #four #harbor #i #months

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

— Harry Mathews

#into #left #middle #navy #princeton

I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#assured #color #confidence #could #distinction

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

I take a nap after supper and dream of the U.S. Navy, a ship anchored near a war scene, at an island, but everything is drowsy as two sailors go up the trail with fishing poles and a dog between them to go make love quietly in the hills: the captain and everybody know they're queer and rather than being infuriated however they're all drowsily enchanted by such gentle love... (p. 119) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#love #lovebia #u-s-navy #dreams