Ships Quotes - Page 19

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Rufus Jones

Adversity, Dark, Night

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Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

James Lawrence

Giving Up, War, Fighting

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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Adventure, Light, Swings

Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11

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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

Miyamoto Musashi

War, Mean, Men

Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

Isaac Asimov

Funny, Airplane, Fire

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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

Jesse Jackson

Slave Ships, America, Diversity

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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.

Richard Sibbes

Christian, Prayer, Fall

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In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer, Grief, Blessing

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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Majel Barrett

Stars, Second Chance, Numbers

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Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Stars, Ocean, Blessed

Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca the Younger

Life, Anger, Suicidal

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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acceptance, Heaven, Accepting

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.142, University of Georgia Press

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A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

Woodrow Wilson

Strong, Powerful, Military

Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

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Without ships, we cannot live.

Winston Churchill

War, World, War Of The Worlds

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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stars, Real, Bad Ass

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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.

Joshua Slocum

Loneliness, Fog, Wind

Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman

Beach, Ocean, Marine

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain.

Rutger Hauer

Memories, Rain, Moon

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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Class, Unfaithful, Masters

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

Alexander Woollcott

Sarcastic, Sinking, Firing

Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romance, Sail, Objects

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

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In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

Christian Morgenstern

Art, Children, Fun

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To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.

Newton D. Baker

Military, Airplane, Bridges

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Strong, Fear, Future

"The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Isak Dinesen

Girl, Knowing, Order

"Seven Gothic Tales (The Old Chevalier)". Book by Isak Dinesen, April 1934.

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