Sailor Quotes - Page 9

• In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Girl, New York, Squares

  "Mets-Phillies enters timeline of history" by Steve Berthiaume, www.espn.com. May 2, 2011.

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• We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are risking their lives under hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe.

  Patty Murray

  War, Commitment, Marine

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• My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

  Katherine Page

  Summer, Ocean, Night

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• People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

  Megan Fox

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Art

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• Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

  Walter Scott

  Believe, Marine, Belief

  Redgauntlet vol. 2, ch. 7 (1824). The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs traces the expression "Tell it to the marines" back to 1805.

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• I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Sea, Ducks

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

  John Lubbock

  Wind, Bags, Treasure

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

  Winston Churchill

  Soldier, Together, May

  Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

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• Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Past, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.

  Justin Bieber

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Sea, Breeze, Stirring

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Sea, World

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• It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

  Bob Hope

  Boys, Soldier, Pleasure

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• You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

  Al Madrigal

  Cute, Sexy, Growing Up

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• I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Blow, Iran

  Source: time.com

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• In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Rebel, Needs

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Rocks

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen”

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• President Bush, yes, spent money like a drunken sailor, and left the nation with a record $400-billion deficit. President Obama, however, is spending far more money than Bush, with a record $1.8 trillion deficit projected for his first year.

  Paul Kengor

  Years, President, Records

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• Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

  Emile Chartier

  Laughing, Firsts, Helm

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• Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Country, Islands, Denmark

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Looks, Use

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• We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.

  Otto Neurath

  Taken, Sea, Support

  Otto Neurath, Marie Neurath, Robert Sonné Cohen (1973). “Empiricism and sociology”

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• It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

  Ovid

  Sight, Sea, Land

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