#sailors

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. ↗

— James F. Amos

#every #first #marine #marines #member

People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. ↗

— Megan Fox

#art #beautiful #because #find #form

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#carlos #died #except #having #here

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. ↗

— John Sweeney

#based #cup #get #merits #people

And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you know what you're about." "Everyone keep warning me about sailors," I complained. "Why can't someone tell the sailors to stay clear of me?" Granny snorted. "Oh, you're the fierce one now! Just take care no one else catches you unawares and knocks you on the nob! ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#grandmother #humor #men #sailors #sex

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#religion

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#poor #prayed #rain #sailors #shepherds

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#gender #humor #masculinity #romance #romance-novels

Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even if they were generally regulated to jobs such as cooks, servants, and muscians and endured thier fellow seamen's racism, they were still freemen in the Royal Navy. One famous black sailor wrote, "I liked this little ship very much. I now became the captian's steward, in which I was very happy; for I was extremely well treated by all on board, and I had the leisure to improve myself in reading and writing. ↗

— Tony Williams

#equality #history #racism #royal-navy #sailors

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. ↗

— Lane Evans

#allies #along #around #boldly #brave