Naval Service Quotes

Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, and I have cousins and uncles in the military, so it's something that I've always respected.

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.

I am having immense fun running the Navy.

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

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most.

I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

They wouldn't take me in the navy because of my glass eye. So I joined the merchant navy, who allowed monocular crew if you worked in the kitchens. You're not wanted on deck or in the engine room with one eye, but you're good to fire up the ovens and cook hundreds of chops.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

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?

When the USS New Jersey is commissioned, it will be a source of pride for everyone in our state for decades.

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

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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.

I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.

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

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

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.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

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

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.