Top 170 Naval Quotes & Sayings

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

Kunjali Marakkar is one of the first naval commanders of Kerala. He was an expert at his craft.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.

My father is a scientist , my mother a teacher, my brother is a Naval Officer and I am an entertainer - we all are doing out a bit for our country!

As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

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.

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.

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

Unfortunately, every time someone said “debriefing,” the entire flock had one image: someone’s tighty-whities disappearing in a flash. We were smothering our giggles, but it was getting harder. Coupled with the whole “naval this, and naval that,” with its undeniable belly-button connotations, we were essentially turning into a sugar-jacked, sleep-deprived flock of incoherent, silly, recombinant-DNA goofballs. This was not going to end well.

The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side who are not dealing with the prison - that they can just pretend this is an ordinary Caribbean naval base. For them, it's: "Why are you making such a big deal out of the most notorious prison in the world?" It's like if people living near Buchenwald said they wanted to talk about the other lovely things in the region besides the camp.

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

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

To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

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

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

One of the things I learned at the Naval Academy and the Marine Corps is we have to make tough decisions.

When I left Kentucky at age 18 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy and lifted my right hand to swear the oath to defend our Constitution, I did so willingly.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

I was either going to be an actor, a Naval aviator, or a pediatric surgeon. Those were the three things that I wanted to do.

Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is their topmost priority.

By interacting with NATO vessels on E.U. anti-piracy duty, the Chinese are gaining valuable insights in to Western naval doctrine.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

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 am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.

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 was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Everything in my life I owe to God, my family, the Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps.

Whereas the U.S. views its naval role in the Pacific as a force for keeping the seas free for navigation by all, China sees things quite differently.