Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
Mark Kelly
TimeSchoolFlyingTestNavyFirst
My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with photos, mementoes from wherever he'd traveled as a Royal Navy gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it turned out. I'd haul it out and go through it time and time again.
Honeysuckle Weeks
TimeSmallTraveledGoRoyalNavy
We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
Eric Morecambe
TimeBrotherLateNavyUpDouble
I grew up in a Navy family.
Elizabeth Edwards
FamilyNavyUpGrew
I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting office, and I spent the next six years in the Navy.
Charlie Murphy
MotherMeYearJailNavyOffice
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
William Bligh
NatureThoughtShipToo MuchNavy
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Marc Garneau
CollegeGraduationCanadaNavyAlso
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
Harry Mathews
YearNavyLeftMiddlePrinceton
With digital attacks becoming rampant, the computer nerds who work for the good guys to thwart such incursions have become the new Navy SEALs - elite commandos who can carry out sophisticated operations on the battlefield of cyberspace.
Daniel Lyons
WorkGoodNewNavyBecomeDigital
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali
WomenStyleMenBlackNavyPlastic
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
Ian Harding
ParentsMomArmyNavyNeverBecause
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
Jim Webb
TechnologyAmericanNavyPrincipal
I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best regulated of any in the world, we must, in some degree, imitate them and aim at such farther improvement as may one day make ours vie with - and exceed - theirs.
John Paul Jones
ImprovementBestDayWorldAimNavy
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.
Stephen Kinzer
PowerWorldLivingRoyalNavyOil
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
Tony Curtis
WorldNavyNeighborhoodWholeBronx
Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often took them on ships, but there they performed a function, mousing for the officers.
Michelle Dean
CatsPeopleOutdoorsNavyMovement
Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland
BluePinkIndiaNavy
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Chester W. Nimitz
WarEnemySoilNavyCarryFunction
Like it or not, Jesse Ventura is a Navy SEAL. He did the pushups and put up with the cold water, just like the rest of us.
Brandon Webb
WaterColdRestNavyUpUs
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
Phil Klay
CulturePeopleMediaNavyMinds
One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.
Pete Hamill
TimeDayStandEarlyBrooklynNavy
I don't go anywhere without clean shoes. That's one thing I've got from the navy.
Mark Hadlow
ShoesGoNavyCleanWithoutGot
I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.
Mark Kirk
ArmyThreeAir ForceNavyAirServe
If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.
Howard E. Wasdin
YouKnowNavyNeverBarStill
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