(98 quotes found)
“The only color I don't have is navy brown.”
Yogi Berra
“I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!”
Diana Vreeland
“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.”
Yakubu Gowon
“The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.”
William Proxmire
“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.”
William Blackstone
“For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.”
Bible
“I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?”
Jim Armstrong
“There are a lot of Navy and Coast Guard reservists ready to join. Right now, they are forbidden to come in. It's crazy not to take advantage of them.”
Clifford Jordan
“He loves his sailors, he loves his Navy, no bones about that, ... He never expects anything in return. That's what I love about him.”
Robert E. Lee
“No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.”
Frank Knox