Quotes About Sailing Your Own Ship

#1. It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Fritz Sauckel

#2. Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Dickens

#3. There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer - a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters.

Tom Neale

#4. I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.

Jade Parker

#5. All right boys, let's sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!

Katherine McIntyre

#6. There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

Joyce Brothers

#7. An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#8. When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

#9. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.

Roberto Cotroneo

#11. Who hadn't at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?

Lev Grossman

#12. Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.

Susanna Clarke

#13. The first chap we said was loafing, until he died. That's nearly always the verdict on a sailing ship, anyway. A man is invariably 'mouching' until he dies, and then we say, "Oh, he must have been bad after all."
Charles Lightoller

Richard Davenport-Hines

#14. O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#15. The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

Joshua Slocum

#16. As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

Fritz Sauckel

#17. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

Henry Van Dyke

#19. But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

Carsten Jensen

#20. Capes are the poetic points of continents. They are the summits of our sailing souls.

Kaci Cronkhite

#21. The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.

Michael Meade

#22. Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is ... is freedom.

Johnny Depp

#23. Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812,

Kate Milford

#24. We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

Seth Adam Smith

#25. Read on and I will tell you what to do in the future to avoid getting smashed and find yourself with nothing but little pieces of drift floating around in the ship's wake.

John W. Trimmer

#26. It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

Jorge Luis Borges

#27. What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

Kristin Cashore

#28. 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

#29. I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Charles Darwin

#30. I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song

Phil Wickham

#31. Helena had been standing by her window looking out to sea, breathing in the fresh air and admiring the picturesque scene of a small ship sailing into the harbor.
She had not been able to think of anything other than Mikolas for days.
From LONGING the 3rd chapter of TRUE LOVE

Destin Bays

#32. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Alan Villiers