“We are an Island.  Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back.”

“What your soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.

Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet

“My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn”

Naoko Takeuchi (1967) Japanese manga artist

“Going around the world on a bicycle is no longer enough -- the daredevil has got to go around the moon on a Pogo stick with one arm tied behind him if he wants to get his picture in the paper.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“All we saw was that Time is taller than Space is wide.
That's why we got bound to a round desert island,
'neath the sky where our sailors have gone.
Have they drowned, in those windy highlands?
Highlands away, my John.”

Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician

“E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse—soldier an' sailor too.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”

Willa Cather (1873–1947) American writer and novelist

“I remember this, that King James had behind him the letter of the law just as completely as Mr. Asquith has now. He made sure of it. He got the judges on his side by methods not dissimilar from those by which Mr. Asquith has a majority in the House of Commons on his side. There is another point to which I would specially refer. In order to carry out his despotic intention the King had the largest army which had ever been seen in England. What happened? There was no civil war. Why? Because his own army refused to fight for him.”

Bonar Law (1858–1923) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom