Tom Hanks Quotes

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

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

I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.

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

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

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

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

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.

Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

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

One of the greatest honors in my life is serving as the sponsor of the new aircraft carrier bearing Dad's name.

In the Navy, you're around a lot of people from different parts of the country. They've got different accents, different upbringings. I learned to love country-western music.

I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

I was first and foremost a fellow Gamecock and friend before a Medal of Honor recipient.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

War is hell. Sending young people to conflicts that are unwinnable and unresolvable - it puts them in a position where they're going to suffer. And yet their experience is that they're proud of their service, and they should be. Service freely rendered is a noble thing.

I want to continue to use my platform to tell my story to let young people that are struggling with their sexuality or identity know they are not alone, and it will get better.

It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me, to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.