Top 32 Crew Ship Quotes

#1. A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Sterling Hayden

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#2. I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

Robert Breault

Crew Ship Quotes #145433
#3. A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

Bill Cosby

Crew Ship Quotes #191362
#4. But Polybius brought out the basic lesson in his reflection-'for as a ship, if you deprive it of its steersman, falls with all its crew into the hands of the enemy; so, with an army in war, if you outwit or out-manoeuvere its general, the whole will often fall into your hands'.

B.H. Liddell Hart

Crew Ship Quotes #207704
#5. He looked at the viewscreen and couldn't believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it would've been up his nose! There was an urgent scuttling as the bridge crew scrambled back into their respective seats.

Christina Engela

Crew Ship Quotes #268942
#6. Given time, a ship's crew will attach sexual innuendo to anything. It makes their jobs more exciting.

James Alan Gardner

Crew Ship Quotes #441042
#7. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Shannon Hale

Crew Ship Quotes #453968
#8. Papa was right, after all. A ship's crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

Heather Vogel Frederick

Crew Ship Quotes #536124
#9. She'd learned that home was a fluid thing and whether on a planet, a satellite, or a rusted bucket of a ship, this crew was her home.

Melissa Landers

Crew Ship Quotes #629596
#10. Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.

Neal Stephenson

Crew Ship Quotes #680792
#11. That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he's coming for this ship now."
"And how do you know that?" asked Slank. "Did a seagull tell you?" This brought chuckles from the crew.
Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

Crew Ship Quotes #703928
#12. You're the only boy who talks about clothes," Solveig said. "I know," I said.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Crew Ship Quotes #882996
#13. Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.

Clive Barker

Crew Ship Quotes #901075
#14. I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

Elian Gonzalez

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#15. The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.

Arthur C. Clarke

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#16. Chief security officer on an OPA ship was a half-assed kind of position, one part cop, one part efficiency expert, and pretty much all den mother to a crew of a thousand people with their own agendas and petty power struggles and opinions on how he should be doing his job better.

James S.A. Corey

Crew Ship Quotes #1013547
#17. Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Rose George

Crew Ship Quotes #1049173
#18. Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest.

Neil Gaiman

Crew Ship Quotes #1065332
#19. Britain was formerly the America of the Germans.

Benjamin Franklin

Crew Ship Quotes #1129646
#20. The element of dates I dread. To kiss or not to kiss, I hated that question.

Jamie McGuire

Crew Ship Quotes #1326059
#21. The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Patrick O'Brian

Crew Ship Quotes #1343428
#22. What use is wizardry if it cannot save a Unicorn?

Peter S. Beagle

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#23. You are like the captain of a ship, and it is your job to tell the crew (your body and mind) what to do. If you don't, you will end up making one bad choice after another. If

John Paul Khoury

Crew Ship Quotes #1434568
#24. Know this. If you're here to hurt my ship, or my crew, I will make sure you truly do know suffering."
Cale from Demon Possession

Kiersten Fay

Crew Ship Quotes #1479779
#25. Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war ... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

Thomas Huxley

Crew Ship Quotes #1538589
#26. When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

Rudyard Kipling

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#27. She was thinking about the container-ship fleet on the horizon. The crew out there wouldn't have been exposed to the flu. Too late to get to a ship herself now, but she smiled at the thought that there were people in this reeling world who were safe.

Emily St. John Mandel

Crew Ship Quotes #1568450
#28. Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

Billy Campbell

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#29. When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For the one will do what the other commands, although they are chilled to the bone; And both together can live through weather that neither could face alone. KIPLING

Lettie B. Cowman

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#30. A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

Wes Fesler

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#31. A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Josephine Tey

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#32. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Julie Murphy

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