Top 15 Quotes About Boats And Ships
#1. Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
Robert A. Heinlein
#2. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
Winston S. Churchill
#3. What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love ... They're the guiding lights of a life.
Jimmy Carter
#4. The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Hafez
#6. A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#7. Eight hundred small boats had loaded 338,000 men into larger ships during the legendary evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, including 500 French officers and 18,000 French sailors, to prevent them from being captured or killed by the Germans.
Charles Kaiser
#8. U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.
Erik Larson
#10. that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor
Sarah Vowell
#11. They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life "in the world but not of it.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#12. The Vampire Masquerade
Mask of jewels across a pale face
Disguise the evil that makes no mistakes
Drops of red blood on delicate white lace
The body lies still and only time awaits.
S.L. Ross
#13. Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
Khalil Gibran
#14. We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.
Alistair Begg
#15. I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.
Jane Wagner
