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“From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.”

People Said Sea Soldier British Boat They Said Israeli Yacht Commandos

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.”

Ifs Causes Water Prayer Sea Rivers Seasons Fishes British Dues Hungry Swimming Ceremony Wizards Columbia British Columbia

Author:James G. Frazer

“Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.”

May Age Sea Fronts Tradition Tasks Fortune Affection British Glorious Empires Flags Foe Torches Endeavour British Empire Unbroken Hold Fast Vicissitudes

Book:Foreign & Colonial Speeches

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

Earth President Lord Sea Fields Particular Doctors Fishes British Beast Empires Als Conqueror British Empire Uganda

Author:Idi Amin

“...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.”

Sea Type Rivers Series Fishes British Boat Dry Lakes Fishing Rebellion Typical

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.”

“Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.”

Long Use Used Process Sea Subjects Century Periods British Phrases Defence Isle Erratic

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.”

Ifs Writing Stills Nations United Impossible Sea Treats England Trade Connected British Peaceful Divides United Nations Naval Isle Near And Far

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.”

Years Sea Grew Grew Up British Uncomfortable San Francisco Columbia Fiji British Columbia Malibu

Author:Raymond Burr

“After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea”

Sea Objects South British Continents Conquest Margins Crossings Expeditions

Author:Ernest Shackleton

“What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.”

Earth Christian Air Blood Sea Taste Eating Skins Bills British Luxury France Marshes

Author:John Gay

“Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.”

Trying Winning Sea Crosses British Salt Golfers

Author:Jack Nicklaus