Ship Dedication Quotes

USS Andromenda Transcendent :D The universe is wider than our views of it. — Henry David Thoreau

USS Carondelet (Defiant Class)- "Walk softly and carry a big stick"
USS Lexington- For honor's the sum of the mind....
USS Farrington (Sovereign)- ...one sword at least thy rights shall guard
USS Persues (Oberth Mod) ...one faithful heart shall praise thee...
USS Atlantis (Galaxy)- ...where the ocean meets the stars, I'll be sailing...
USS Squall (Modified Nova)- ...for in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire... -Oliver Wendell Holmes
USS Manassas (Defiant Class)-...we ride to the sound of the guns... George Armstrong Custer

Here's some weird ones, with a theme, no less...

USS Red Rock: I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
USS London Bridge: And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
USS Hyacinth: Fear death by drowning
USS Stetson: Will it bloom this year?
USS Golden Cupidon: Speak.
USS Shakespeherian: Those are pearls that were his eyes.
USS Albert: HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
USS Fire Sermon: Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
USS Porter: Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
USS Tiresias: I who have sat by Thebes below the wall, and walked among the lowest of the dead.
USS Phlebas: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
USS Thunder: Then spoke the thunder.
USS T.S. Elliot: Who is the third who walks always beside you?

(Names & quotes from T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land'

USS DaVinci (timeship): In rivers, the water you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of what is to come; so with time present.

USS Schweitzer

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. — Albert Schweitzer

To misquote Guinan:

"That's the great thing about imagination - it can take you to more places than a starship."

A few I dug up:

USS Honour : The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund BurkeUSS

USS Interceptor : Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. - Ashleigh Brilliant (worryingly my character's on this ship!)

A few quotes spare here for usage

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson (Night Court)

The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov

Kites rise highest against the wind-not with it. - Winston Churchill

There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a ***** in the valley. - Joel Rosenberg

Got a file full of historic quotes - most handy

USS Indomitable: For what though the field be lost? All is not lost - thy indomitable will, and courage never to submit or yield...

From Milton, Paradise Lost.

USS Columbus - And the sea will grant each man new hope...and sleep brings dreams of home

USS Red October - One ping only please.

Galaxy Class - USS Atlantis (Star Trek:Genesis)

"...and reach for the heavens and hope for the future;
and all that we can be, not what we are." John Denver

USS Kistiakowsky - The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky

USS Magellan

Sursum Corda (Lift up your hearts)

USS Excalibur (refit Constitution class)

L'audace, Toujours, L'audace

-Audacity, always audacity

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USS Success - To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov