Quotes About U Boats

#1. U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.

Erik Larson

#2. Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out - Winston Churchill.

Patrick Robinson

#3. I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

Karl Donitz

#4. 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

#5. I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

Harold Prince

#6. Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.

Robert Denning

#7. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

#8. I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.

Benjamin Guggenheim

#9. There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Mark Twain

#10. Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#12. So we beat on, boats against the current.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating

William Shakespeare

#14. Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.
Heavens no, I'm spying on people," Virginia responded unrepentantly.
-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset

Lesley M.M. Blume

#15. The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats.

Paulo Coelho

#16. It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.

Federico Chini

#17. Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him?

Theodore L. Cuyler

#18. A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Well, I still don't like him! What kind of a man doesn't name his boat?

Amber Silvia

#20. It's funny because you always think a real friendship can weather any storm, but human relationships can be as flimsy as paper boats in a tsunami."
~ page 97

Steven Parlato

#21. I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.

Lin Pardey

#22. It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

Robert Goolrick

#23. Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.

Cherie Lunghi

#24. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.

Simon Spurrier

#25. But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

Wendell Berry

#26. Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Michel Serres

#27. Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

Thomas Perez

#29. Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

Baltasar Kormakur

#30. At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

William Adams

#31. Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. The fishermen could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus Christ.

Henry T. Blackaby

#33. Sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water,

Orhan Pamuk

#34. The stillness of the water, the horizon framed by other glass towers and miniature boats drifting in the distance.

Emily St. John Mandel

#35. There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

Clint Walker

#37. Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with ... I used to race cars since I was a child.

Gautam Singhania

#38. Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

Richard Bach