Boat Quotes - Page 3

• As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

  Laura Dekker

  Feels

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• Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

  John Masefield

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

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• There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Somewhere Else, Sailing, Nautical

  Kenneth Grahame (1988). “My Dearest Mouse: 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters”, Viking Press

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• The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Persistence, Will And Determination

  Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Wind, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

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• When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

  Bernard Baruch

  Wisdom, Equality, Ships

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• There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

  Alan Villiers

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

  Wendell Berry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.157, Counterpoint Press

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Differences, Focus, Made

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

  Khalil Gibran

  Peace, Pain, Islands

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• The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

  Guy Lafleur

  Captains, Call Me

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• To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sea, Desire, May

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

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• A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

  David Reuben

  Marriage, Rocks, Long

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• The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Travel, Interesting, People

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

  James D'arcy

  Different, Pushing, Seeing

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• Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Funny, Years

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.1, Velvet Element Books

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Children, Simple, Sea

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

  John Masefield

  Stars, Sea, Sailing

  John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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• Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

  Felicity Kendal

  Feels

  "Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat" by Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2002.

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• Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

  Charles Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Beach

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