Quotes About Marine

The comforting news for every American is that our men and women in uniform, and every Marine, is as good today as any in our history.

I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.

If I don't manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the French to leave the European Union. And then you'll be able to call me Madame Frexit.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

I cannot conjure up an ounce of respect for Bill Clinton when it comes to the military. Every time I see him salute a Marine, it infuriates me. I don't think Bill Clinton cares one iota about what happens in a military unit.

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Any Marine veteran can reach back thirty or forty years and summon the names of his drill instructors. Flying in a Marine jet over Parris Island, Brig. Gen. Randy West looks down on the swampy land and simply says , "I was born there.

Ask an American soldier to identify himself, and he probably will say he is "in the Army." By contrast, a Marine— especially if he is one of the better ones— is likely to say, "I'm a Marine." The small linguistic difference is significant: The first is a matter of membership or occupation; the second speaks to identity.

The dolphin (dorado), which is a brilliantly colored tropical fish, must not be confused with the creature, also called dolphin, which is a small, toothed whale.

I'm obsessed with great white sharks. And I want to dive into the coral of the Great Barrier Reef.

I've used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life. But there's a big difference between a U.S. Marine with a rifle and a civilian with a gun.

When a dolphin swims fast, it's really fast!

Ignorance about sharks and their important role is remarkable: even at a marine science conference in China, I was served shark-fin soup (and my refusal, as a guest of honour, caused bafflement as much as consternation).

If you're not former military, join the Marine Corps.

With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

Newborns can be up to 20 percent of their mother's mass in the smaller cetacean species. This is extreme. Few, if any, large terrestrial mammals give birth to young that are more than 15 percent of their own weight.26 The minimum size for a newborn marine mammal seems to be about 0.6 meters long and five kilograms.

give birth to precocious offspring, able to swim immediately after birth and so to follow their mothers through their fluid world. For

The terrestrial heritage of the marine mammals is evident in their air breathing and its consequences for metabolic rates, size, and sound production. There is one other characteristic of the marine mammals and especially the cetaceans that is remarkable among marine creatures, but is less obviously tied to air breathing: their brains.

The bowhead lives its life extremely slowly, becoming sexually mature at about age twenty-five, with females giving birth every seven years or so; if it avoids the whalers, a bowhead has a good chance of living well past a century.19 It is definitively the

3.2. Evolution of the marine mammals, showing aquatic, semiaquatic, and largely terrestrial groups of species. Copyright Emese Kazár.

As the Jeannette drew nearer to the equator, the waters became oily calm and teemed with eels, tortoises, and dolphins.

this Navy Corpsman, lying there with his scissors in one hand and a roll of bandages in the other. He must have been hit just as he was going to treat some wounded Marine.

The men found one mine—also Russian-made—that had a particularly diabolical design. A dozen ships could pass over it without incident, but the thirteenth ship would cause it to detonate. "It took a curious sort of mind to come up with a notion like that," wrote one Marine, wondering if the number thirteen had a "sinister connotation for Russians as it did in the States.