The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship. — Elsa Triolet Copy Share Image
“If you are going to challenge a giant wave, you better be a giant rock!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Life is like crossing a river. When you dive into it, there must be wave. To get you goal, you must swim. — Ky Vanchhay Copy Share Image
“I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...” — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
“Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.” — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any… — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the… — Mike Rounds Copy Share Image
Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump… — Mike Hughes Copy Share Image
“At the Tourist Bureau they talk about the cooling trade winds that caress the shores of Puerto Rico every day and night… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start to cry and I have no idea why. Yet the tears just bring relief and just like a river… — Kenya Benton Copy Share Image
I'm in my apartment in trendy Tribeca. I've been down here for 37 years, from before it was a fashionable neighbourhood. It's… — Mark Margolis Copy Share Image
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Gus van Sant I met at the Berlin film festival, and he came up to me. He had a little film in… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
“Somehow her engineers managed to squeeze twenty-two-and-a-half knots out of the Warspite, which was pretty remarkable for a thirty-year-old ship. However, just… — Iain Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“The life of a man is like a ball in the river, the Buddhist texts state - no matter what our will… — Richard C. Morais Copy Share Image
All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“A good sailboat (and skipper) works with the sea and therefore reaps the benefits of kinship with the world that no amount… — Rick Page Copy Share Image
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Take a chance in life because a ship is safe in the harbor...but that's not what it was built for!.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no… — Charles G.D. Roberts Copy Share Image
Life is a boat; the heart is a sail and love is a wind; the wind of eternity. — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
Waters of my heart Flow and merge, a great river streaming in my veins, to wash over you, my love. — Priya Copy Share Image
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The river takes what she wants, does what she desires and washes over anything that stands in her way.” — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“And what is the sea?" asked Will. "The sea!" cried the miller. "Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
