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Letter "N" » navy
«The man with the navy-blue voice.»
«Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]»
«The burden the Navy has carried so brilliantly in the Pacific will inevitably be shared more and more with the Army and its air forces. But the Navy has performed its historic duty; the Navy got them there.»
Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine, Jr.
| Keywords:
air force, Air Forces, brilliantly, historic, inevitably, navy, Pacific, performed, the Pacific
«There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.»
Author: Thomas Babington
| Keywords:
Charles, gentlemen, In the Navy, navy, seaman, seamen, The Gentlemen
«The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
bulwark, floating, In the Navy, island, navy, ornament, royal, the island
«The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.»
«Today President Bush ordered an investigation into whether it is appropriate to have civilians with no experience running a Navy sub. Hey, how about an investigation into whether it's appropriate to have a civilian with no experience running the country?»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
appropriate, civilian, civilians, hey, investigation, investigations, In the Navy, navy, ordered, President Bush, sub
«The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Army
| Keywords:
corps, equal to, Marine, Marines, navy, police force, propaganda
«The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
air force, Air Forces, bomber, bombers, fighters, In the Navy, navy, The War
«The only color I don't have is navy brown.»
Author: Yogi Berra
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| Keywords:
brown, browned, browning, browns, color, In the Navy, navy, The Brown
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