Top 36 Ship Port Quotes
#2. Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas
#4. If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port
Assata Shakur
#6. In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
Fernando Pessoa
#7. The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams
#8. Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
Buzz Aldrin
#9. You look good as a Pirate." Erin
"Ahoy, matey," he said, laying her back against the grass. "Me cap'n's ship needs a port." V' Aidan
"Me cap'n's port needs a ship." Erin
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. The ship is safest when it is in port, but that's not what ships were built for.
Paulo Coelho
#11. Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.
Ayn Rand
#12. The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port. -Mgru
Stephen Moles
#13. (By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All
C.S. Lewis
#14. Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep
Albert Pinkham Ryder
#15. When we join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we board the Good Ship Zion and sail with her wherever she goes until she comes into that millennial port. We stay in the boat, through squalls and stills, through storms and sunburn, because that is the only way to the promised land.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#17. By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck
Marc Levinson
#18. Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction.
Louise Penny
#19. A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#21. There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.
Patricia St. John
#23. God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port
Charles Spurgeon
#24. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
Tom Robbins
#26. Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Something Zachariah told me filled my mind and excited my heart: "A Sailor," he said, "chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port ... but winds have a mind of their home.
Avi
#29. A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
Avi
#30. When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.
Traian Basescu
#31. Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
Zig Ziglar
#32. Every ship needs a port because unlike ships waves never get tired!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Good thoughts without actions are like a ship stuck in a port.
Debasish Mridha
#34. For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
David Foster Wallace
#35. Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.
Rose George
#36. Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
Peter Drucker
