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The stoats are on guard, at every point, and they make the best sentinels in the world.
A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian)
No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
MANY PEOPLE HAVE TURNED AND LEFT THE DOCK JUST BEFORE THEIR SHIP CAME IN.
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
Men and parts were waiting when they docked.
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Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'
For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.
Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit.
It was not easy victory in the America Cup. Our boys spent years experimenting with different designs for their boat before they came up with the innovative idea of having a submerged nuclear submarine tow it.
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great... Great.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.
Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more.
We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.
Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.
Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.
We Capture a Flag
that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
Saturday night. Buddy Dow, hired skipper of a big lunker owned by an insurance company in Atlanta, had enlisted two recruits and was despairingly in need of more.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
How early the American cause turned to the sea.
Each of a hundred ships, built by the same men at the same yard to the same plans, will have her own special characteristics--most of them bad, really, but after her crew becomes accustomed to them they are spoken of affectionately, particularly in retrospect.
The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.
French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers. I watched the coast. Watching a coast
Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
There were others. SEALs and Aussies, Green Berets and Canadians.
I like the blues ... but I like aqua marine just as much.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.
Sharks are workers like the critics remoras.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
Hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like
Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.
Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city
San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.
Right now, hail to the Michigan State Spartans.
Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
Where are we?" Nick shouted.
"I don't know, you're the nautical one. I just piloted the boat out of the harbor."
"Pirated! You pirated it out of the harbor!"
"Semantics.
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.
Legana Breed spoke: 'You are all marines?'
'Aye,' Fiddler said.
'Tonight, then, I too am a marine. Let us go kill people.
No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.
Give the citizens of our fair seaport a real vote and they will do one of three things: vote for their own tribe, vote for the Islamists, or vote for whoever paid them the most money.
Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.
The longed-for ships come empty home, founder on the deep
And eyes first lose their tears and then their sleep.
The deep-laden boats pull in against the coast where the canneries dip their tails into the bay. The figure is advisedly chosen, for if the canneries dipped their mouths into the bay the canned sardines which emerge from the other end would be metaphorically, at least, even more horrifying.
Once a Marine, always a Marine.Marine-- Katie Reus
Who doesn't like dolphins? They're like puppies.
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
I felt infuriatingly left out
a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.
A wild dedication of yourselves
To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.
Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea.
Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.
I'm a big fan of pirates in general.
We sit here we fix the sea
with our eyes and it does not
fight back, it is wide and clear enough
to embrace our talk our illusions.
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
The sea hates a coward.
The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.
Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.
Give me the gamblers and the dreamers.
A cluster of ships rocked and tugged at anchor in the bay, sheltered somewhat by a reef.
I'm a sailor, not a politician.
You mar our labour: keep your cabins:you do assist the storm[ ... ] What cares these roarers for the name of king?
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
The tide tarrieth no man.
On Sunday, something washed up on shore.
Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?