Seamen's Quotes

#1. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

Rose George

#2. They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

Erik Larson

#3. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#4. Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

Emma McLaughlin

#6. If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Richard M. Nixon

#7. The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.

Gudjon Bergmann

#8. One can never ever forget the one who they loved in their past and that to their First Love!!
'Whenever and whomever it was, your experience with your first love is etched into your memory forever..

Kumar

#9. A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.

Marmaduke William Pickthall

#10. God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

Abraham Lincoln

#11. I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

Bear Bryant

#12. I can't help it that this is the Bermuda Triangle-she pointed at her crotch-when guys venture there, they tend to stay. I tapped my chin. Oh, I thought you called it that because it's sucked in lots of seamen.

Kresley Cole

#13. I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Joseph Conrad

#14. When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Diogenes

#15. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

#16. Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

J. C. Squire

#17. I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain,
And shook at Invar Amargin
The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
And drove tumult and war away ...

William Butler Yeats

#18. There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles E. Wilson

#19. There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.

Alan Shearer

#20. O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.

T. S. Eliot

#21. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

Dava Sobel

#22. I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that.

Frank Caliendo

#23. I like simple clothes, but sometimes I'll go for a goth-witch vibe.

Lorde

#24. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson

#25. The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.

Hermann Hesse

#27. Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Jonathan Swift

#28. Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

John Amery

#29. Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail.

John Piper

#30. I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

Sean Lennon

#31. It doesn't matter," he said to his sheep. "I know other girls in other places." But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering.

Paulo Coelho

#32. The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

Marcus Buckingham

#33. A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Jacques Maritain

#34. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Ani DiFranco

#35. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.

Erik Larson

#36. I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

Lord Byron

#37. Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

Oliver Hazard Perry

#38. My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

Son Lux

#39. The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.

Henry Clay