The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman. — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem... — Kevin Keegan Copy Share Image
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others… — Oliver Hazard Perry Copy Share Image
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
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… — John Piper Copy Share Image
As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change… — Brad Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All hands obeyed, and at once the eight or ten seamen who composed the crew, sprang to their respective stations at the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
“The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“...most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order… In the immutability… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
“Sailors tended to collect things on their travels. His bosun kept a small box stuffed with plant seeds from foreign ports, a… — Donna Thorland Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier. — William Petty Copy Share Image
Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land. — J. C. Squire Copy Share Image
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Where lies the land, to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know. And where the land… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
