Petty Officer Academy

Famous quotes containing the words petty, officer and/or academy:

“I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“There was something so free and self-contained about him, something in the young fellow’s movements, that made that officer aware of him. And this irritated the Prussian. He did not choose to be touched into life by his servant.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)