Ships Sail Quotes

#1. I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

James Elroy Flecker

#2. Though the harbor is safe, ships were made to sail the sea. The same can be said for you and me.

Julie-Anne

#3. Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

George Washington

#4. You can't hit a target if you don't know what it is.

Anthony Robbins

#5. The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.

Laurence Bergreen

#6. Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

George Orwell

#7. The only better thing than a unicorn, is a gay unicorn.

Lady Gaga

#8. If I was strategic, I would have figured out how to get out of this place. Would have seen everything falling apart and got out while there were still ships to sail.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues,

Junichiro Koizumi

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

Katherine McIntyre

#11. There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

Janice Thompson

#12. If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Brian Tracy

#13. Seraphine, Seraphine, Seraphine. O most beloved of women, most fiery of saints, never leave me, please. I'll erect columns of white marble to you, build gardens of delights for you, cause ships to sail and warriors to rise for you, if you'll only remain by my side.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#14. And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Henrik Ibsen

#15. Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.

Dan Millman

#16. A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.

J. Sterling

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

Catherine Of Siena

#19. Just as ships are built to sail the seas and planes to fly the heavens, so is man created for a purpose.

Zig Ziglar

#20. All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

James Carville

#21. The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. I like Hazelle. Respect her. The explosion that killed my father took out her husband as well, leaving her with three boys and a baby due any day.

Scholastic Inc.

#23. THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. Moral Reflections on the Wind. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. {95}

Various

#24. Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

Stefan Molyneux

#25. The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

John Masefield

#26. ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author Mammy Oaklee

Mammy Oaklee

#27. We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

E.L. Doctorow

#28. But don't pull me down or strangle me, he replied: for the Misses Eshton were clinging about him now; and the two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing down on him like ships in full sail.

Charlotte Bronte

#29. My parents were just as smart as I am, just as hard working if not harder; I think my father and grandfather were probably better men, yet I've been able to accomplish things professionally that they were not able to.

Marco Rubio

#30. Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!

Sean Stephenson

#31. I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

Madeleine Albright

#32. I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings,

Carlos Boozer

#33. 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

#34. Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos ...

Paul Cezanne

#35. In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships ... So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

Wernher Von Braun

#36. Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt

Andy Partridge

#38. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers

David McCullough

#39. When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Johannes Kepler

#40. Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Lincoln Steffens