Quotes of Fleet - somelinesforyou

“ Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. ”

- James Thurber

“ Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ”

- Dora Russell

“ Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man. ”

- Shimon Peres

“ How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. ”

- William Cowper

“ A load would sink a navy. - King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system. ”

- Richard Cobden

“ It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that. ”

- Peter Hall

“ We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. ”

- Sir Humphrey Gilbert

“ All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ”

- John Gay

“ Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men. ”

- David Garrick

“ We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. ”

- Joan Chittister

“ In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others. ”

- Voltaire

“ War is too important a matter to be left to the military. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

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

- Prince Andrew

“ The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ The army is the true nobility of our country. ”

- Napoleon III

“ There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. ”

- Graham Chapman

“ Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. ”

- Sir Richard Hull

“ Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. ”

- Henri Cartier Bresson

“ A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. ”

- Max Weinreich

“ I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. ”

- Sean Connery

“ Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. ”

- Lord Chesterfield

“ This is recognition that the Navy is implicitly accepting a supporting role in the global war on terrorism. ”

- Andrew Ross

“ Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew/ From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue. ”

- William Falconer

“ The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ”

- William Falconer

“ No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would. ”

- Lonny Starr

“ No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping. ”

- Frank Knox

“ The only color I don't have is navy brown. ”

- Yogi Berra
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