Naval Observatory Master

Famous quotes containing the words naval, observatory and/or master:

    “It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Remember to take the best dancing master at Berlin, more to teach you to sit, stand, and walk gracefully, than to dance finely. The Graces, the Graces; remember the Graces!”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)