Sailing Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Nautical

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

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• Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

  Roger Ebert

  Clouds, Sky, Camels

  Roger Ebert's review of "Cloud Atlas", www.rogerebert.com. October 24, 2012.

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• There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

  Errol Flynn

  Brother, Lying, Sea

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• For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Journey, Justice For All

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nautical, Vexation, Passengers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• It looks like frozen snot.

  Lewis Francis Herreshoff

  Looks, Frozen

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• If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, People

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

  Parker Stevenson

  Beach, Sunday, Water

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• It is time to be old
  To take in sail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

  Johnny Depp

  Black, Nautical, Needs

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• Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny, Power

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

  Robert Southwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60

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• The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

  Countee Cullen

  Home, Heart, Keys

  Countee Cullen, “The Shroud Of Color”

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• It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

  Robert Bork

  Inspirational, Funny, Ships

  Robert H. Bork (2008). “A time to speak: selected writings and arguments”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Sea, Nautical

  Hilaire Belloc (1912). “First and Last”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

  Michelle Shocked

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean

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• The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Land, House

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Islands in the Stream: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

  Andrew Jackson

  Uneasy

  In James Parton 'Life of Jackson' (1860) vol. 3, ch. 35

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• I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Beautiful, Cheating, Peace

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ocean, Nautical, Terror

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• ...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Home, Journey, Easier

  Thor Heyerdahl (1958). “Aku-Aku The Secret of Easter Island”

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• The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

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• He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

  William Osler

  Book, Practice Of Medicine, Sea

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• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

  John Updike

  Writing, Sea, Hug

  Hugging the Shore foreword (1984)

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