Boat Quotes

• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Pirate

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• There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Yelling, Wind

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

  Jim Harrison

  Inspirational, Travel, Lakes

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

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• Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Dream, Life Is Good, Shells

  Song: Delaney Talks To Statues, Album: Fruitcakes, 1994

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• We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

  Christie Watson

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• Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Your Smile, Overboard, Stealing

  Jentezen Franklin (2017). “Right People, Right Place, Right Plan: Discerning the Voice of God”, p.30, Whitaker House

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fear

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 18, 2014

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

  Ramakrishna

  Moving, Grace, Breeze

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• Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.

  Paul Lutus

  Moving, Knows, Did You Know

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• Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

  Rumi

  Water, Support, Ruins

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.228, Shambhala Publications

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• When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

  J. C. Chandor

  Islands, Self, Littles

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• Jolly boating weather,
  And a hay harvest breeze,
  Blade on the feather,
  Shade off the trees.

  William Johnson Cory

  Weather, Tree, Hay

  'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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• You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sailing, Increase

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.93, Crown Archetype

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• The sea hates a coward.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  'Mourning becomes Electra' (1931) pt. 2, act 4

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• Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

  James Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Water

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• Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

  Alice Munro

  Inspiring, Dream, Good Life

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.252, Vintage

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• Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.

  Zig Ziglar

  Risk, Safe, Harbors

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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  At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

  Robin Lee Graham

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Witty, Wind, Sailing

  TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

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• We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

  Anna Freud

  Ocean, Sailor, Tiny

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• Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.

  A. A. Milne

  Islands, Robins, Ordinary

  1926 Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.9.

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• O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sea, Presidential, Thank You God

  "Remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the East Coast Memorial to the Missing at Sea". May 23, 1963.

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