Port Quotes - Page 8

• I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

  Madame de Stael

  Rowing, Graves

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• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, "I wanted my first son to be named Dallas."

  Dallas Roberts

  Dad, Son, Thinking

  "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Letting Go, Heart, Dark

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• Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust.  Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black.  The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful.  The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.'  The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.

  Terry Gilliam

  Beautiful, Song, Beach

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• If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.

  Hannah Storm

  Children, Wine, Doe

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• The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Country, Attitude, Home

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• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

  Walter Scott

  Horse, Men, Rooms

  'The Doom of Devorgoil' (1830) act 2, sc. 2 'Bonny Dundee'.

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• Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sea, Long, Soul

  Edmund Spenser, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1873). “Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen”, p.111

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• After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Journey, Together, Crowds

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial

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• Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Able, Ships

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• The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Sight

  "On Old Age". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Iron, Two, Finding Yourself

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

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• One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

  Christopher Bond

  Administration, Myth, Outsourcing

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• He enters the port with a full sail.

  Virgil

  Inspirational, Funny, Philosophical

  Virgil, C. Davidson (Translator of Virgil.) (1791). “The Works: Of Virgil, Translated Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow. For the Use of Schools, as Well as of Private Gentlemen”, p.192

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• When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Discipline, Enjoy Life, Needs

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Civil War Memoirs of Louisa May Alcott (Unabridged): Including Letters, Hospital Sketches & Biography of the Author – Autobiographical account of the author from the time she worked as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War”, p.187, e-artnow

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• For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

  David Foster Wallace

  Travel, Stronger, Bovine

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• It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

  Kenneth Williams

  Storm, Hurricanes, Arthur

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• All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  America, Balance, Connections

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• Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Stars, Inspiration

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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• To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Years, Views, London

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.63, Cooper Square Press

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• New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

  Cornelia Parker

  New York, Adventure, Forever

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

  Kendrick Meek

  Jobs, Florida, Dollars

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• I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Home, Tired

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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