Active Duty Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words active, duty and/or fleet:

    “Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Every subject’s duty is the King’s, but every subject’s soul
    is his own.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)