Sean Connery Quotes

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

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• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Living
  • Brand

• I'm glad I was in the Navy.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Glad
  • Navy

• I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Part

• The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

  

  Waldemar Kaempffert
  • World
  • Transition
  • Navy

• Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Fun
  • Baseball
  • Navy

• What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Night
  • Scotland

• My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

  

  Dudley Nichols
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Worship

• It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.

  

  Peter Hall
  • Change
  • Mission
  • Open

• Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.

  

  William Halsey
  • Hard
  • Strikes
  • Navy

• The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

  

  William Bligh
  • Application
  • Considering
  • Navy

• I have some great digital pictures I could sell on the Internet [of Lucy] doing splits and handstands and running around and stuff. My parents came to the set, I brought them over from Scotland, and they loved her. They said, 'This girl has so much energy, where the hell does that come from?' It just comes from her. She's incredibly infectious.

  

  Paul McGuigan Oasis
  • Internet
  • Stuff
  • Pictures

• The Navy is very old and very wise.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Wise
  • Old
  • Navy

• Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Scotland

• There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Fantasy
  • Scotland

• There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

  

  Sean Connery
  • People
  • Government
  • Socialist

• Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Companies
  • Scotland
  • Head offices

• I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting "Hardball".

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Long
  • Havens
  • Shooting

• America has always been a land of diversity, basically made up of immigrants, and that is something I want to see continued. It's something I'm proud of when people think of America.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  

  Joseph Auslander
  • Book
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

• There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Technology
  • New

• I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Scotland
  • Navy
  • Qualifications