Top 100 Quotes About Your Boat
#1. You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#2. I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum
Mervyn Peake
#3. I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
Colonel Sanders
#4. Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.
Zadie Smith
#5. I don't know what your "boat" is, but he plunks right in the center of it.
Suzanne Eller
#6. True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
Mary Pipher
#7. That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
Michael Morpurgo
#8. Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
Oren Lyons
#9. Did you see what happened?"
"Hard to miss," he said dryly. "Your boat went kaplooie."
Tally blinked at his easy dismissal of two lives and a million-dollar boat. "Is that the technical term for it?
Cherry Adair
#10. Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.
Epicurus
#11. The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.
Tracy Kidder
#12. Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
Pindar
#13. To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
Mark Carwardine
#14. Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat ...
Ken Robinson
#15. Someday, we'll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I'll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that's when I'll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can't hook
your boat to mine, because I'm liable to sink us both.
Gabrielle Zevin
#16. When the storms of life rise and threaten to swamp you, can you quiet the waves? Can you leave that cherished boat behind and walk on the troubled waters, or do you cling to your boat like the rest of the world, certain you will drown if you step on the deep dark seas that surround you?
Ted Dekker
#17. I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat.
Ted Dekker
#18. I know that you are not a man content to wait behind and just watch as the ferry chugs away. But perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go. You'll make the right decision. I think you already know what it is. E
Jessica Brockmole
#19. I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
#20. You can't control the weather, but there are definitely things you can do to protect yourself and the investment you've made in your boat. The key is to get started early so you have the supplies you need and you have a plan for what you're going to do with your boat.
Scott Hall
#21. Tears are a river that takes you somewhere ... Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#22. The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.
Alice Clayton
#23. Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive a used Civic.
Dane Cook
#24. Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
Julius Caesar
#26. Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep.
Patti Smith
#27. Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.'
'Ship.'
'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.
Ally Carter
#28. You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#29. Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go.
Jessica Brockmole
#30. Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.
Oren Lyons
#31. The compass simply represents the ideal, present but unachievable, and sight-steering a compromise with perfection which allows your boat to exist at all.
John Steinbeck
#32. Truth is ... You wouldn't want to sail your boat backwards, so why would you want to sail backwards with your life? Prosperity is always ahead of you & never behind!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#33. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
Gabrielle Zevin
#34. When the tides of life turn against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Don't waste those tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float.
Edward Norton
#35. Whatever floats your boat ... or finds your lost remote ...
Andre Benjamin
#36. It's you," she murmured, staring at his eyes, a fine, dove gray.
He smiled. "Of course, it's me. Let's get you back to your boat.
Cheryl Sterling
#37. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'
Mohsin Hamid
#38. You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.
Jeff Foxworthy
#39. Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.
George R R Martin
#40. The same current that drifts your boat may sink mine. No two persons walking this earth are the same, not even twins. Keep this in mind when dealing with others.
Peprah Boasiako
#42. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.
Christopher Allsopp
#43. We need to borrow your boat," said Vimes.
"Bugger off!"
"I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,'" said Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#44. I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed ... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
C.O.A series
Kim Cormack
#45. When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Kiersten White
#47. Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !
Joel N. Ross
#48. Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")
Adele Faber
#49. Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.
Jentezen Franklin
#50. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
Mary Oliver
#52. Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -
The water below is as dark as the grave,
And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -
It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
Margaret Atwood
#53. Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.
Emily Post
#54. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...
Assegid Habtewold
#55. If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?
Christopher Moore
#56. In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.
The Refined Poet
#57. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.
Katherine Boo
#58. I think when life gets heavy, people look for an escape. "The Love Boat" is an escape. We have happy endings. You don't see many of those around. I think it gave people a vicarious adventure.
Gavin MacLeod
#59. The rapids beat below the boat Deep in the heart of the land Feel the pulse of the river in the pulse at your throat Deep in the heart of the land.
Lynn Culbreath Noel
#60. When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?
Vilhelm Moberg
#61. Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.
Richard G. Scott
#62. I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.
Neko Case
#63. You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
Tom Petty
#64. Something about this boat screamed, I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!
Maureen Johnson
#65. Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.
Christopher Atkins
#66. If you asked why the post had not come, or why the boat did not sail for England, or why your coffee was cold, or why your boots were not cleaned, or why your window was shut, or why the canary didn't sing,-you would always be sure to be told, c'est la guerre!
Louise Mack
#67. You want me to join your group of demon hunters," I can't believe I just said that out loud, "because of a can of pepper spray and a boat load of luck? You're insane.
Bill Blais
#68. I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat;
I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't.
You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't.
Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows,
Your handshake ain't matchin your smile ...
Beanie Sigel
#69. Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.
Colin Farrell
#70. Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
Ray Bradbury
#72. What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#73. Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.
Richard Siken
#74. Maybes are anchors you chain to your own feet. Right before you leap off the boat into the ocean.
Karen Marie Moning
#75. No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table - would there be any trace of me?
Jeffrey McDaniel
#76. That's right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren't weird?
Rick Riordan
#77. Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
Dave Barry
#78. I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat. And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.
Esther Hicks
#79. A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!
Richard Simmons
#81. How do you tell one You've spoken with God? / Would you believe someone / Who said that they saw / Plans for a boat / To hold all the beasts / And you and your kids From a flood to retreat?
Brian M. Boyce
#82. Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.
Suzanne Collins
#83. You'd better start rocking that boat right now or else your live is going to pass you by before you even start living it.
Nicole Williams
#84. Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.
James Patterson
#85. When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.
Mary Whipple
#86. In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
Bill Conti
#87. Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.
John Boyne
#88. Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'
Hank Smith
#89. Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail.
Richie Norton
#91. Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, - -
William Shakespeare
#92. Please say you'll be my wife. I want you tied to me in every way a man can be tied to the woman he loves. I can't live without you and I never want to try. Share the boat with me. Share your life with me. If you will, I promise to keep you safe and happy every day for as long as I draw breath.
M. Leighton
#94. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN
Katherine Boo
#95. 1lb beefstak, with
1pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.
Jerome K. Jerome
#96. I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room, camping - rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat. Whatever it was for you, I bet that, among other things, this gave you a little more freedom, a little more time.
Graham Hill
#97. But you're a naughty girl. Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing.
George Eliot
#98. On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?
Sam Ewing
#99. Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religious epiphanies amount to nothing.
Neal Stephenson
#100. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Yasmin Mogahed
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