Ships Quotes - Page 2

• When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

  Greer Garson

  Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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• I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

  Gilda Radner

  Funny, Cute, Women

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• Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Storm, Way

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 2, st. 12

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• Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Jail, Sailing

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

  Enoch Powell

  Travel, Mean, Journey

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  At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

  Robin Lee Graham

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

  Lewis Francis Herreshoff

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

  Charles Kettering

  Ocean, Achievement, Storm

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• Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

  Joseph Conrad

  Fall, Past, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Anxiety, Illness

  "The Man and the Artist".

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• Loose lips sink ships.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Lips

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.446, Faber & Faber

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• 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Kings, Shoes

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Pregnancy, Two

  Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)

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• I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Airports, Feelings, Luck

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• Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

  Thomas Moore

  Sea, Heaven, Gone

  Thomas Moore (1823). “The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc”, p.305

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• There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Ocean, Climate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.184

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• Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Laughing, Wave

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.121, Library of America

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• She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

  Robert Southey

  Flirting, Play, Way

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey”, p.99

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• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Ocean, Army

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.7, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• 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, Sailing

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

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