Top 100 Boat Quotes

#1. I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Boat Quotes #1880
#2. Knees, but they evaporated as the boat picked

Lisa Scottoline

Boat Quotes #7065
#3. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

David W. Wolfe

Boat Quotes #7632
#4. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Wendell Berry

Boat Quotes #7970
#5. Ah, I know that," said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. "Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small things ... "
"Row like the blazes, lads!" Rob Anybody yelled.

Terry Pratchett

Boat Quotes #8060
#6. I like to dress up and look nice. I'm not quite at the stage yet financially to do that too often, but it's nice to push the boat out a little bit for award ceremonies and stuff.

Simon Bird

Boat Quotes #9003
#7. Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Michel Serres

Boat Quotes #10312
#8. Three Antari get on a boat...

V.E Schwab

Boat Quotes #11251
#9. Today, I show you Lake Como even though I don't know fuck all about Lake Como; I do know how to drive a boat. Tonight, no parties, no friends, no nothing. You, me, dinner. Later tonight, just you and me. You with me?"
"I'm with you," I whispered, and I was with him. So with him.

Kristen Ashley

Boat Quotes #11385
#10. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

Boat Quotes #13957
#11. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.

Michael Meade

Boat Quotes #16665
#12. Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.

Ruth Moore

Boat Quotes #17150
#13. No more crying. Tears only cause destructive
floods. When you are sad, you build a boat.

Katherine Russell

Boat Quotes #20826
#14. There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.
There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

Kabir

Boat Quotes #29261
#15. Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan's lack of heat tolerance. "I didn't say anything." "Whatever, man," Ronan replied. "I know that face. You were born in hell, you're used to it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Boat Quotes #30094
#16. I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

Eddie Izzard

Boat Quotes #30356
#17. She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Stephen King

Boat Quotes #30476
#18. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.
The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

Arthur Ransome

Boat Quotes #33144
#19. Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.

Renzo Piano

Boat Quotes #33805
#20. Russia has named Vladimir Putin its man of the year for the 15th year in a row. Putin got 143 million votes and the guy he was up against got killed in a mysterious boating accident. The boat was in a warehouse.

Conan O'Brien

Boat Quotes #34263
#21. Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

Boat Quotes #35618
#22. I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

Neal Asher

Boat Quotes #37492
#23. The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

June Jordan

Boat Quotes #42075
#24. Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus.

Mitch Hedberg

Boat Quotes #44253
#25. Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

Travis Barker

Boat Quotes #44777
#26. Huge mammals surrounded us, any one of whom could easily overturn our stupid little boat. Tripod would drown. I would drown. Joe would undoubtedly be rescued by mermaids seduced by his beauty.

Kristan Higgins

Boat Quotes #45576
#27. The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

Michel Gondry

Boat Quotes #48576
#28. In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.

Jules Verne

Boat Quotes #52381
#29. Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. "Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.

L.M. Montgomery

Boat Quotes #53660
#30. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Boat Quotes #57581
#31. I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Paul Farmer

Boat Quotes #61171
#32. I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I've seen so many pictures on Airbnb that make me think I should be living there. I could eat great salads and be on a boat.

Mary Lambert

Boat Quotes #61764
#33. My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Christian Camargo

Boat Quotes #63365
#34. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

Boat Quotes #64109
#35. Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Goran Ivanisevic

Boat Quotes #65431
#36. We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.

David Steindl-Rast

Boat Quotes #65865
#37. The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.

James Spithill

Boat Quotes #67931
#38. I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.

Erykah Badu

Boat Quotes #70681
#39. Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

Barbara Carrera

Boat Quotes #73406
#40. A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Fernando Pessoa

Boat Quotes #73507
#41. One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

Margaret Cho

Boat Quotes #75244
#42. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

Boat Quotes #75336
#43. I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum

Mervyn Peake

Boat Quotes #76532
#44. I would like to apologize for the rocking of this boat, but we are currently being humped by a whale.

Andy Parsons

Boat Quotes #77714
#45. U-boat commanders called this their 'Happy Time'. Between January and July 1942 they sank 495 merchant
ships and 142 tankers, a total of 2,500,000 tons. Why did it take America so long to respond to such an obvious threat?

Derek Robinson

Boat Quotes #78036
#46. I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

Guy Clark

Boat Quotes #78372
#47. That night, Beansprout dreamt of Vivian and the large bronze boat with the dragon-headed prow coming to take Arthur to Avalon, in the same way as Vivian had taken Tom to wake the King.

T.J. Green

Boat Quotes #81196
#48. We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Anna Freud

Boat Quotes #81962
#49. For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

Alanis Morissette

Boat Quotes #82407
#50. Let the boat work - and not me!

Phillip Thomas

Boat Quotes #85932
#51. I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

Colonel Sanders

Boat Quotes #88421
#52. From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

Mordechai Vanunu

Boat Quotes #89485
#53. Tis not the nodding of the head that rows the boat.' As

Neil Boyd

Boat Quotes #93406
#54. Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.

Zadie Smith

Boat Quotes #95892
#55. From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

Kevin Johnson

Boat Quotes #98881
#56. Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

David Crosby

Boat Quotes #99359
#57. What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know.

Anthony Horowitz

Boat Quotes #101563
#58. But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land.
(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

Dave Barry

Boat Quotes #102704
#59. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

Boat Quotes #112421
#60. You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

Mark Shields

Boat Quotes #114545
#61. Step out in confidence, overcome the nuisances.
Step out in boldness, quieten the fearfulness.
Step out with passion, challenge the deadness.

Sometimes, you just need to rock the boat.
It's key to keeping afloat!

Manuela George-Izunwa

Boat Quotes #115639
#62. A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

Rahul Gandhi

Boat Quotes #119621
#63. Of course, for a seaman, next to being actually at sea, the greatest enjoyment comes from preparing the boat for a voyage.

Robin Knox-Johnston

Boat Quotes #124568
#64. What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.

Meg Cabot

Boat Quotes #139630
#65. Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

Michael Ondaatje

Boat Quotes #139709
#66. The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.

Arundhati Roy

Boat Quotes #140693
#67. Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Calvin Coolidge

Boat Quotes #145877
#68. You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boat Quotes #146778
#69. My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Will Rogers

Boat Quotes #146889
#70. I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.

Katharine Hepburn

Boat Quotes #153944
#71. I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Karl Donitz

Boat Quotes #156207
#72. The reality is, we all want to walk on water, but none of us wants to step off the boat.

Jarrid Wilson

Boat Quotes #157875
#73. If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

Jane Birkin

Boat Quotes #158648
#74. None of them knew the color of the sky.

Stephen Crane

Boat Quotes #159219
#75. I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.

Margot Robbie

Boat Quotes #160784
#76. I loved Le Taha'a private resort in Tahiti. It's accessible only by private boat or helicopter, and it sits on a tiny strip of land just big enough for one hotel. It's extraordinary and faces the Vanilla Island where Tahitians grow vanilla.

Marie Helvin

Boat Quotes #165371
#77. There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Mark Twain

Boat Quotes #165672
#78. Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

Winston Churchill

Boat Quotes #166949
#79. If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.

Sara Levine

Boat Quotes #167198
#80. The sound he'd taken for an engine hum? The rowers chanting while a drummer kept the beat. "Row, row, row the boat, toward the Darkling Sea. And there we'll find some fucking fish, and have a killing spree." Each time they sang a verse, they cheered. A berserker army on its way to glory.

Eve Langlais

Boat Quotes #169145
#81. After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

William Henry Ashley

Boat Quotes #171162
#82. They were all on his side. Hi boat sank.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Boat Quotes #171188
#83. This, it seemed, was just what happened when you left someone. They disappeared behind you like the wake of a boat.

Jennifer E. Smith

Boat Quotes #174939
#84. Damn, this op has been like a fucking Love Boat episode.

Suzanne Brockmann

Boat Quotes #175780
#85. We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

Pauline Hanson

Boat Quotes #176839
#86. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Boat Quotes #178721
#87. We keep saying that we humans are all in the same boat. This is only physically true, but not mentally! For instance Stephen Hawking lives mentally on the space! Not everyman mentally lives on this planet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Boat Quotes #183706
#88. Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.

Alonzo Bodden

Boat Quotes #186954
#89. The challenges they had faced together had taught them humility - the need to subsume their individual egos for the sake of the boat as a whole - and humility was the common gateway through which they were able now to come together and begin to do what they had not been able to do before.

Daniel James Brown

Boat Quotes #187336
#90. You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Mary Oliver

Boat Quotes #188322
#91. Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Margaret Atwood

Boat Quotes #189035
#92. Don't bring an anchor, on a sinking boat.

Anthony Liccione

Boat Quotes #189537
#93. You cannot rid the ocean of water, but you can build a boat.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Boat Quotes #190292
#94. I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

Jerry Doyle

Boat Quotes #191543
#95. A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.

Billy Graham

Boat Quotes #194950
#96. Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone ... The blues are all the same.

Jackson C. Frank

Boat Quotes #196269
#97. There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank.

J.P. Donleavey

Boat Quotes #201694
#98. Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Boat Quotes #202818
#99. The Transitoriness of Life
To what may man's life be compared?
To a boat which rowed away,
Far in the sea, and left no track,
In the morning of the day.
Shami Mansai

Reiko Chiba

Boat Quotes #203020
#100. She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?"
"Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused.
"What do you want to call it?"
He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

Cassandra Clare

Boat Quotes #203491

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