Sailor Quotes - Page 2

• How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Home, Land, Wife

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• All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing with all my skin and bone ''Please keep him safe. Let him lay his head on my chest and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it, dashed to pieces.'' Makes a cathedral, him pressing against me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.

  Richard Siken

  Stars, Fall, Believe

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Wind

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• I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

  James Cagney

  Girl, Mother, Fun

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• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

  John Locke

  Ocean, Serendipity, Depth

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

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• A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Jail, Sailing

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).

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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Night, Anchors

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

  Jon Kyl

  Military, Marine, Soldier

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• It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Heart, Eye, Sea

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated): Including his early autobiographical novel Stalky & Co.”, p.183, e-artnow

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• A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

  Maria Mitchell

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Home

  Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

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• But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Law, Long

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.259, OUP Oxford

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• I have the mouth of a sailor.

  Kristen Bell

  Mouths

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Has Beens

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard; in our historic territory. I simply cannot imagine that we would travel to Sevastopol to visit NATO sailors. Of course, most of them are wonderful guys, but it would be better to have them come and visit us, be our guests, rather than the other way round.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Military, Home

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

  Luanne Rice

  Knows

  Luanne Rice (2011). “The Silver Boat: A Novel”, p.184, Penguin

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• There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

  A. A. Milne

  Time, Grandfather, States

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Sea, Married

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• I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Depression

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• I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

  Alain Gerbault

  Adventure, Air, Sea

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• Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Attitude, Political, Today

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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• The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Teaching, Science

  Nature Discipline (p. 38)

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• I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?

  Michael Jackson

  Stars, Children, Growing Up

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