Home Port Quotes

#1. I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

Madeleine Albright

#2. The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Staying safely at your home port is narrow thinking.

Ken Marlin

#4. 'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Rose George

#5. It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together,

Diane Sawyer

#6. I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.'
'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked.
Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.

Robin Hobb

#7. Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.

Billy Collins

#8. Jeddah is the natural cultural capital, an old fortified port on the Red Sea, the home of merchants and immigrants. Jeddah is historic, confident, less threatened by new ideas. Riyadh today is bible-belt fierce, and brash.

Patrick Tom Notestine

#9. Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.

Alvin C. York

#10. Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

John Powell

#11. He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.

Mark Twain

#12. I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

Assata Shakur

#13. Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

Katharine Drexel

#14. [He] seemed at home and content now they were sailing, as though leaving the port meant the cessation of all his worries, and heading out to sea a new era of peace and amenity.

Jack Kerouac

#15. Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

Robert Aris Willmott

#16. ...my awkward silence default setting kicked in.

Sarra Manning

#17. Oh my God, Charlie, Sophie's straight. Look at her go after that Lil' Smokie.

Anonymous

#18. I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#19. I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

David LaChapelle

#20. For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#21. In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

Michael McCaul

#22. My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Susanna Kearsley

#23. I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their ... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.

Andrew Forrest

#24. How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

#25. All right," I said. "Let's show these Seattle assholes how we do things in Vegas. Jennifer?" She held up the detonator. I nodded. "Light 'em up!" 41. One click of the detonator, so fast her fingers blurred, and the alley erupted in a blast of crumpled metal and flame.

Craig Schaefer

#26. 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

#27. Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ... but winds have a mind of their home.

Avi