Life Is Like A Ship Quotes

#1. Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship.

Muhammad Ali

#2. All the details of my life were in exact order and yet I was tumbling in them-out of order like a tremendous wave had hit me and I was thrown off the ship and I awoke or dreaming, or dead I knew not-no I couldn't speak.

Eileen Myles

#3. Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

Henry Blackaby

#4. The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

Saint Boniface

#5. Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

Sholom Aleichem

#6. We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship.

Donal O'Callaghan

#7. What if I said I wanted a friend?' The ship crouches among the fresh-cut stalks. 'Or a lover? That's how you make a person, yes? By affection and intimacy. By touches like knives in a salted bed.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

#8. It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.

Scott Lynch

#9. World is just like a ship in the sea, having each type of mankind, it depends upon you, whether you join good community or bad to completer your journey.

Arbab Jehangir

#10. Life changes so quickly and like a sailboat you either wait for whatever cross wind comes your way to move you on your journey or you can actually decide where you want to go and use the ship's engine to stay on course.

Wes Adamson

#11. We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Ella Maillart

#12. A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

William Banting

#14. When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#15. Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

Felix O. Hartmann

#16. I think you will like your life in the Transport Service, but it'll be far from normal. Being a slave ... or a goatherd's wife ... is closer to normal. A deep-space response ship pilot is a very, very rare thing.

J.Z. Colby

#17. The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

Mardy Grothe

#19. The locust continues
to devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing to starboard
like a ship in a bottle
Human longing goes on
Loneliness a curse
Innocence persists
Ignorance persists

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#20. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Fitzhugh Dodson