Boat Quotes

“Time is your boat not your home.”

— Thérèse de Lisieux

Never leave fish to find fish.

— Moses

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

— John F. Kennedy

Love boat party at Mr.Blacks =]

— Matthew Lush

Nodding the head does not row the boat

— Anonymous

The great fish eat the small.

— Alexander Barclay

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

— Jeff Goldblum

A lot of people missed the boat…

— Anonymous

Help your brothers boat across, and your own will reach the shore

— Ritu Ghatourey

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

— John F. Kennedy

“In the stream of life, you row your boat alone.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

— Adrienne Clarkson

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

— Sibel Edmonds

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

— Billy Connolly

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

— William Kittredge

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

— Bernard Baruch

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

— Zane Grey

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God…

— Edward Abbey

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

— Yoko Ono

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

— Bill Barich

“Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to…

— Paul Schullery

Yeeeeeep...Yep-yep-yep-yep-yep. I remember when she took me out on her dad's boat she wouldn't let me help at all.

— Rachel Green

...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly…

— Charles Ritz

Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to…

— Tony Bishop

It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s,…

— Brian Skerry

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied,…

— Ksenia Sobchak

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his…

— Daniel Quinn

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their…

— Leonard Cohen

If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella…

— Michael Schenker

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea, What matters beating wind…

— Amy Carmichael

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with…

— John Musker

From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,…

— Ovid

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it…

— Tony Bishop

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're…

— Bill O'Reilly

It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the…

— Stephen King

In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death.…

— Roy Chapman Andrews