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Navy Quotes

"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."

Dave Van Ronk, American Musician

"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, Scottish Actor

Navy, School, Scotland

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

Frank Knox, American Public Servant

"I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

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