Boat Quotes · Page 13

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have a house with its own dock and I can take my boat out when I want.

— Freddie Ljungberg

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

— Christian Camargo

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

— Paulo Coelho

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

— Donald Hamilton

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

— Robin Lee Graham

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

— Bill Copeland

My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

— Jeffrey Skoll

I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people…

— Eddie Izzard

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

— Hafez

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

— Alec Baldwin

I became a boat captain because I loved the water and had been on a boat since I was eight. I captained…

— Diane Wilson

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

— Cotton Mather

Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show…

— Tyler, The Creator

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

— Hilaire Belloc

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

— John Ortberg

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has…

— Edwidge Danticat

I think every time you start a job, it's good to remember that everyone's kind of in the same boat, no one…

— Elizabeth Olsen

Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been…

— Nelly

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting…

— Cassandra Clare

I think all Americans need to recognize that, as tragic and horrible as slavery was, as big an economic shadow as it…

— Lonnie Bunch

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who…

— John Gierach

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is…

— Thomas Szasz

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number…

— Jimmy Buffett

I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his…

— James Joyce

When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.…

— Barry S. Strauss

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited…

— Avi Lewis

Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Embarking on a new relationship is like setting off at sea in a sail boat for two. Too much baggage from the…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which…

— Lefty Kreh

Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along…

— Reid Hoffman

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

— Ted Lindsay

“It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.”

— Federico Chini

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

— Caroline Lucas

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

— Klaus H. Carl

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

— Izaak Walton

My grandad was a prawn fisherman who built his own boat.

— George Clarke

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

— Robert Burns

“You want to know my name? --a hill, a tree. An empty drifting boat.”

— Hsu Hsuan