Port Quotes

“Port Authority Bus Terminal”

— Anonymous

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

— Dianne Feinstein

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

— Honore de Balzac

Happiness always returns to port . . .

— Duong Thu Huong

“You can’t see new places by staying in the port!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

— Thomas Fuller

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

— Yehuda Amichai

“Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea.”

— Patrick O'Brian

“She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.”

— James Joyce

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

— William Shakespeare

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land…

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

“You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port?”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

— Henry Ward Beecher

To reach a port we must set sail. Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a…

— Janis Joplin

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Charles Spurgeon

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never…

— Og Mandino

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till…

— C. S. Lewis

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different…

— Anonymous

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of…

— Charles Spurgeon

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When…

— Ayn Rand

I would attack any squadron blockading a port. Nothing could prevent me from dropping out of the clear blue sky on to…

— Jules Vedrines

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see…

— Barack Obama

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

— Henry David Thoreau

But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course…

— Earl Nightingale

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My…

— Dule Hill

I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw…

— Ronald Reagan

“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves…

— Anonymous

They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black…

— Terry Pratchett

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing…

— Thabo Mbeki

Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful…

— Fred Hoyle

Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar…

— John Flanagan