Port Quotes - Page 12

• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Arthur

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• Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Finding Yourself, Pilots, Ships

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Israel, Cities, Jerusalem

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

  Pat Conroy

  Tides, Geography, Wounds

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Sailing, Ships

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• A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

  Avi

  Wind, Mind, Safe

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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

  George Mikes

  Hangover, Wine, Night

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• I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Ocean, Blessed

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

  Arianna Huffington

  Jesus, Air, Safety

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

  Barack Obama

  Running, Years, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.293, Canongate Books

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• Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong.

  Bob Brown

  Mother, Baby, Whales

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