Sailing Sail Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

Ricky Skaggs

#3. The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

John Rousmaniere

#4. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

#5. Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Dave Anderson

#6. Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

John F. Kennedy

#7. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...

Gary Paulsen

#8. My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Albert Einstein

#9. He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.

A.S. Peterson

#10. For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

John Kendrick Bangs

#11. And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

Heinrich Heine

#12. The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered
and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

Matthew Arnold

#14. Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Joseph Conrad

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

Katherine McIntyre

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

Jade Parker

#17. 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

#18. I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

Philippe Petit

#19. To reach a port we must set sail

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#20. Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Richard Halliburton

#21. It is time to be old
To take in sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

Catherine Of Siena

#23. Sail on silver girl, sail on by ... your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way ... see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind ...

Paul Simon