Top 100 Sailor Quotes

#1. 5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw - lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth.

Herman Melville

Sailor Quotes #1355712
#2. One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can the sea from returning to the shore: the sailor calls it the tide; the guilty man calls it remorse; God upheaves the soul as he does the ocean.

Victor Hugo

Sailor Quotes #996509
#3. My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #997673
#4. To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.

Ricky Gervais

Sailor Quotes #1011600
#5. When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

Abby Sunderland

Sailor Quotes #1012731
#6. Alliteration is not a prostitute to be sold to every sailor who visits the port. This fine lady is a valuable literary diva one should ask to sing her aria only for special occasions.

Dennis Vickers

Sailor Quotes #1012932
#7. Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Francis Chichester

Sailor Quotes #1014835
#8. The marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

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#9. I'm going to be my own kind of princess
-Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1035346
#10. That was you?"
"Well, it wasn't Sailor Moon.

Steven Gould

Sailor Quotes #1057877
#11. You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.

James Spithill

Sailor Quotes #1059799
#12. That was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.

Anne Tyler

Sailor Quotes #1064429
#13. My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

Michael Foreman

Sailor Quotes #1075477
#14. A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.

Ed Brubaker

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#15. She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.'

'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.

'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.

Alexandre Dumas

Sailor Quotes #1079104
#16. And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

Vivian Vande Velde

Sailor Quotes #1079821
#17. Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

Mickey Drexler

Sailor Quotes #1080610
#18. In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

G. Willow Wilson

Sailor Quotes #1081177
#19. A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Enoch Powell

Sailor Quotes #1082159
#20. ... you don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously.
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor

John Barth

Sailor Quotes #1082623
#21. Sailor Moon, you likely will be forever immortal.
For you are the most beautiful, shining heavenly body of all time.

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1084708
#22. A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sailor Quotes #1092115
#23. Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1092319
#24. I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

John Ratzenberger

Sailor Quotes #1103093
#25. [Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.

Epictetus

Sailor Quotes #1111900
#26. Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Sterling Hayden

Sailor Quotes #1123507
#27. ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.

Herman Melville

Sailor Quotes #1126361
#28. There's lots o' things folks don't 'preciate," replied the sailor-man. "If somethin' would 'most stop your breath, you'd think breathin' easy was the finest thing in life.

L. Frank Baum

Sailor Quotes #1128234
#29. Does she say tough cookies?" "Well, no," I confess. "Nana swears like a sailor, actually. Last Christmas she dropped a motherfucker bomb at the dinner table, and my dad nearly choked on his turkey.

Elle Kennedy

Sailor Quotes #1134058
#30. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Ken Follett

Sailor Quotes #1134625
#31. It is the cautious and not the reckless sailor who takes his little vessel to distant shores;

Edward Frederick Knight

Sailor Quotes #1137003
#32. Their vaginas were just ships passing in the night, stopping to pick up every dirty sailor.

K.F. Germaine

Sailor Quotes #1144366
#33. Shall I let in the stranger,
Shall I welcome the sailor,
Or stay till the day I die?
Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
Hold you poison or grapes?

Dylan Thomas

Sailor Quotes #1146063
#34. The thoughts of youth,' he continued, 'are bright lights that shine forth like the meteors that oft make brilliant the sky, but the wisdom of age is like the fixed stars that shine so unchanged that the sailor may depend upon them to steer his course.

George S. Clason

Sailor Quotes #1147642
#35. I could totally be a ...
whatever."
"Sailor?"
"On a boat?"
"Yep."
"Yeah." He'll sigh all wistfully. "I could be a sailor. But I'm too busy being a fish.

Hannah Moskowitz

Sailor Quotes #1149473
#36. Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs.

Sameh Elsayed

Sailor Quotes #1151213
#37. I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins.

William S. Burroughs

Sailor Quotes #1151440
#38. I will be remembered when I'm in heaven. People won't remember my name, but they will know the photographer who did that picture of that nurse being kissed by the sailor at the end of World War II. Everybody remembers that.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Sailor Quotes #1164882
#39. As the whore said to the bashful sailor, "It ain't how much you've got, honey, it's how you use it." Some

Stephen King

Sailor Quotes #1176764
#40. There was a time when, if you encountered someone with a tattoo, you could pretty much assume he was either a sailor or had, at one time or another, been in prison. There was something, it seemed, about men being cooped up together that made them want to draw on themselves.

Cuthbert Soup

Sailor Quotes #1177638
#41. For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

Hal Moore

Sailor Quotes #1180082
#42. In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Sailor Quotes #1181829
#43. Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

Leah Remini

Sailor Quotes #1183359
#44. This is Sailor Supergirl," George says. "She knows all about black holes.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

Sailor Quotes #1183654
#45. Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

Abraham Lincoln

Sailor Quotes #1208197
#46. And Pencroft returned to his work, not without uttering a sigh of regret, for every sailor is a born fisherman, and if the pleasure of fishing is in exact proportion to the size of the animal, one can judge how a whaler feels in sight of a whale.

Jules Verne

Sailor Quotes #1210667
#47. Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.

Vivien Alcock

Sailor Quotes #1214614
#48. It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

Katherine Mansfield

Sailor Quotes #1218478
#49. Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1220532
#50. The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Sailor Quotes #1227702
#51. It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

Sailor Quotes #1232489
#52. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

Al Madrigal

Sailor Quotes #1244172
#53. I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man.

Josh Lanyon

Sailor Quotes #1244864
#54. It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

Jack London

Sailor Quotes #1248023
#55. Her father had been a sailor. Her mother had been a siren. That particular relationship had worked out better than normal, with the sailor not being drowned then eaten, and Sharon had been the result, brought back to human civilization and raised to be a civilized young lady.

Larry Correia

Sailor Quotes #1249898
#56. Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune

Naoko Takeuchi

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#57. One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

John Adams

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#58. Popeye the Sailor Man has more cultural longevity. Only women and poofs read or write now. Otherwise, these days, no sooner has someone been sodomised by a close relative than they think they can write a memoir. The game's up.

Hanif Kureishi

Sailor Quotes #1276587
#59. If it's not a dead body ... does this have to do with the cape?" asked Oscar.
"Oscar, I thought we agreed we weren't going to mention that to people," I reminded him.
"Sailor's not people."
"Sailor's curious," Sailor said. "What cape?

Juliet Blackwell

Sailor Quotes #1285481
#60. There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn't know where to go

Seneca.

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#61. One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.

Diana Dempsey

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#62. Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

Euripides

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#63. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#64. I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.

R.L. LaFevers

Sailor Quotes #1350349
#65. Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket,
sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street.

Thomas Pynchon

Sailor Quotes #1350465
#66. The doughnut was definitely looking at him. Hello, sailor, it seemed to be saying.

Tom Holt

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#67. And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#68. Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

Emile Chartier

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#69. Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.

Edmondo De Amicis

Sailor Quotes #1876511
#70. The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

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#71. I've heard people speak of themselves as addicted to reading, but I think those people never stole from their family so they could afford this month's serial, or sucked off a sailor for a new book of short stories.

Daniel Polansky

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#72. Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.

Dolly Parton

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#73. Poor Craw?" Ben retorted. "Poor Rory! Craw and Ari curse worse than a trucker shagging a sailor.

Amy Lane

Sailor Quotes #1861308
#74. I'm a sailor, Lettie, I go where the wind takes me. And it led me to you, didn't it? I was born ten thousand miles away, but the wind brought me to Barter, and now we're friends. We're on this boat for a reason.

Sam Gayton

Sailor Quotes #1860589
#75. Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Ogwo David Emenike

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#76. Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

Leland Orser

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#77. Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

John Fowles

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#78. I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

David Crosby

Sailor Quotes #1833249
#79. Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

Tobias Lindholm

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#80. Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

Herman Melville

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#81. As I was walking past Tony Pastor's I saw Pat, the lesbian bouncer, throw a drunken young sailor out into the street. The sailor said, "That place is full of fucking queers." He swung at the air and nearly fell on his face, then he staggered away, muttering to himself.

William S. Burroughs

Sailor Quotes #1817448
#82. Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line.

Alix Christie

Sailor Quotes #1816866
#83. There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

A.A. Milne

Sailor Quotes #1814664
#84. A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Maria Mitchell

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#85. It's empty. Duane swore harsh enough to make a sailor blush, calling into question not only the suspect's parentage, but that somehow duck's were involved.

Andrew Grey

Sailor Quotes #1808176
#86. Just because I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor, doesn't mean I'm not a lady.

Someecards

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#87. For a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honore De Balzac

Sailor Quotes #1777681
#88. When I was drawing this, I thought I'd put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I'm going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here's the six.

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1760691
#89. You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm.

Joan Bauer

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#90. I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Naoko Takeuchi

Sailor Quotes #1750422
#91. What are you staring at, sailor?'
His ice eyes did not flicker. 'My captain, ma'am.'
'Get back to work, Seton.'
He bowed.

Katharine Ashe

Sailor Quotes #1714982
#92. My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Ernesto Bertarelli

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#93. I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

James Cagney

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#94. I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation.

Juliet Blackwell

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#95. Calm seas never made a good sailor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#96. The male who'd just arrived laughed as he embraced Qhuinn. You have such a way with words, cousin. I would say ... trucker meets sailor crossed with a twelve-year-old.

J.R. Ward

Sailor Quotes #1632661
#97. It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

Bruce Chatwin

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#98. The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#99. Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

Patrick Stump

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#100. Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy.

John Le Carre

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