There Are Good Ships Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Yes, things happen for a reason, just not any good reason. (from Crystal Ships, publication pending)

Richard G. Sharp

#4. A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily - with wheat, barley, lentils - to feed Alexandria alone.

Stacy Schiff

#5. God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Charles Spurgeon

#6. In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Grover Cleveland

#7. Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Joan Crawford

#8. We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.

James Elroy Flecker

#9. Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

Walter Winchell

#10. FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Stuart Symington

#11. Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

David Dreman

#12. Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.

Joan Crawford

#13. I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.

Dan Aykroyd

#14. We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

Collis Potter Huntington

#15. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.

Terry Pratchett

#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