Boat Quotes - Page 4

• If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Leadership, Work

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• It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Guy, Supportive, Roles

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• We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

  Dorothy Height

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• It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

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• Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

  Francis Stokes

  Sea, Sailing, Preparation

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• I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

  Phil Donahue

  Rocks, Proud, Wave

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.

  Esther Hicks

  Ideas, Worry, Missing

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• If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

  Tristan Jones

  Waiting, Sailing, Dawn

  Tristan Jones (2014). “Outward Leg”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

  Claude Monet

  Air, Bridges, House

  John House, Claude Monet (1986). “Monet: Nature Into Art”

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• A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

  Tristan Jones

  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

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• My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

  Paula Poundstone

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

  Edward Lear

  Beautiful, Sea, Owl

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 1 (1871)

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• He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

  Hammond Innes

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Together

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• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivation, War, Ambition

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• I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Days Off, Growing, Fields

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• I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

  Thomas Fleming Day

  Sea, Cooking, Sailing

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• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  Ted Lindsay

  Penalties, Rocking The Boat

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• I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Sleep, Sailing, Nautical

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• A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

  Rahul Gandhi

  Doe, Needs, Rising

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• No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

  Dorothy Height

  Needs, Separation

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• Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

  Christopher Atkins

  Running, Islands, Guarantees That

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

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