I would rather sail and hit a rock than sit and rot in dry…

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

— Sam Wineburg

We're going to need a bigger dock

— Jennifer Crusie

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want…

— Eddie Vedder

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

— Smokey Robinson

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways,…

— Ann Brashares

Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm…

— Otis Redding

“What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of…

— Aldo Leopold

“We passed the dry dock and then it and the ship were gone. It would be a number of years before I got a…

— David A. Goodman

The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty…

— John Masefield

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

— John Constable

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Where I am from in Sweden was on the beach, so I love the sound of the water hitting the dock.

— Freddie Ljungberg

“He walks toward the river, placing his feet carefully. His suit is too warm and tight. He reaches the water’s edge. There is the…

— James Salter

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a…

— Jess Walter