Quotes About Ship Crew

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Just because something isn't right, doesn't make it wrong.

Elise Kova

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. A man who does not know God lives guided by the desires of his flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. The sounds pouring forth from his nasal passages registered somewhere between grizzly bear and exploding tractor trailer.

Alice Clayton

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Wes Fesler

#16. I'm interested in power.

Jeff Koons

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

Josephine Tey

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. All that is gold does not glitter...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

Tony Curtis

#26. Wicked companions invite us to hell.

Henry Fielding

#27. Given time, a ship's crew will attach sexual innuendo to anything. It makes their jobs more exciting.

James Alan Gardner

#28. The upper middle-class cracker neighborhood ignored me, focused instead on its own pockets of human chaos. Four

Bobby Adair

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

Ian Wallace

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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