69 Coast Guard Quotes

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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. — Steve Finley

You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes — Greek Proverbs

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. — Unknown

In calm water every ship has a good captain. — Grover Cleveland

cause down the shore everything's all right — Bruce Springsteen

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property. — Theodore Roosevelt

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners. — Winston Churchill

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand. — Richard Harding Davis

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship. — Chester W. Nimitz

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. — James L. Jones

When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain. — Swedish Proverbs

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country. — George W. Bush

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. — Guy de Maupassant

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. — Horatio Nelson

Coast Quotes

We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money. — Woody Hayes

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it. — Morgan Freeman

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. - Ice T

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up. — Ice T

Coast guard quote Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning. — Nina Dobrev

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. — Jay Inslee

Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki. — Duke Kahanamoku

Coast guard quote Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside.
Each of us guard a gate of that can only be unlocked from the inside.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. — The Notorious B.I.G.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. — Francesca Annis

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh! — Katy Perry

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. — Henry David Thoreau

Off Guard Quotes

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe. — Frederick Buechner

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper. - Jadakiss

No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper. — Jadakiss

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards. — Gene Spafford

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance. — Ambrose Bierce

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. — Lysa TerKeurst

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen. — Helen Frankenthaler

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. — Madi Diaz

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound? — Billy Donovan

There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. — — Karch Kiraly

Guard Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. - Bible Proverbs

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. — Bible Proverbs

Thoughts are like arrows: once released, they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim. — American Indian Proverbs

The Regulars are coming out! — Paul Revere

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman

Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life. — Yasmin Mogahed

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! — Sayings

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions. — Milarepa

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. — Gerald R. Ford

Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. Whatever happens in that home and family happens because she cares about it and it matters to her. She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her. — Julie B. Beck

Guards Up Quotes

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' — Theodor Herzl

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. — Larry David

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience. — John Climacus

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. — Drake

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. — Patrick Henry

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment. — Christopher Bond

To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling... She has been placed here to help to enrich, to protect, and to guard the home--which is society's basic and most noble institution. — Spencer W. Kimball

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up. — Rick Mercer

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell. — Rihanna

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. — Erich Maria Remarque

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More Coast Guard Quotes

I want to make sure that the Coast Guard people in Vietnam know that I am hearing about them often and that I am pleased with what I hear. — Wallace M. Greene

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces. — Barry McCaffrey

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. — Russ Carnahan

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks. — Russ Carnahan

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. — Howard Coble

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life. — David Mccord

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less. — Howard Coble

I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed. — Dave Reichert

The U.S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise. — Russ Carnahan

I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard. — Narendra Modi

Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks. — Jimmy Fallon

I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable — Alexander Shulgin

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