Merchant And Marine Quotes & Sayings

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see. — Luis Barragan

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. — Mark Kelly

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy. — Robert Kiyosaki

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering. — Graham Taylor

People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit ... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective. — William Howard Taft

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared. — Shepard Fairey

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. — Joseph C. Lincoln

The thing man seeks is seeking him - the telephone was seeking Bell! — Florence Scovel Shinn

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. — Douglass North

I don't mind exercise but it's a private activity. Joggers should run in a wheel - like hamsters - because I don't want to look at them. And I really hate people who go on an airplane in jogging outfits. That's a major offense today, even bigger than Spandex bicycle pants. You see eighty-year-old women coming on the plane in jogging outfits for comfort. Well my comfort - my mental comfort - is completely ruined when I see them coming. You're on an airplane, not in your bedroom, so please! And I really hate walkathons: blocking traffic, people patting themselves on the back. The whole attitude offends me. They have this smug look on their faces as they hold you up in traffic so that they can give two cents to some charity. — John Waters

Be warned. Beware. Enter this kingdom only if you dare. — Diana S. Zimmerman

Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine. — Clint Walker