Jason Robards Quotes

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy that operates ocean-going ships, and as a result, I was at sea for many months at a time.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

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

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

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.

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

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

My grandad was a submariner; my mum's dad was in the navy.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

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

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

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.

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

I grew up in a Navy family.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.