Sailor Quotes

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.

— Stephen Decatur

I wasn't allowed to watch 'Sailor Moon.'

— Taylor Russell

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

— Rudyard Kipling

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

— Fritz Sauckel

I have the mouth of a sailor.

— Kristen Bell

“He had been a sailor and a sinner”

— Stephen King

The storm reveals the sailor.

— Anonymous

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

— Bernard Moitessier

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

— Naoko Takeuchi

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.

— Dorothy Atkinson

“A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.”

— Tapan Ghosh

The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.

— Liu Bei

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

— Kathy Acker

“Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!”

— Tapan Ghosh

“Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs”

— Sameh Elsayed

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

— Og Mandino

Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight.

— John Ralston Saul

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you…

— L.A. Meyer

The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic,…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

— Bob Hope

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

— Herman Melville

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within…

— Henry David Thoreau

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around…

— Lane Evans

“Wetting her throat, she managed to say, "Did you bring protection?" Sailor froze. A second later, he groaned and dropped his head.…

— Nalini Singh

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is…

— Samuel Johnson

There is in the American Government...a want of unity… The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose…

— James Bryce

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing…

— Honore de Balzac

Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands…

— Steve Robson

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his…

— Abraham Lincoln

There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's…

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr

“I can’t believe this. You go ashore for two hours of trade, and somehow you’ve exchanged an experienced sailor for a governess.”…

— Tessa Dare

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF…

— Robert Baden-Powell

“My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly…

— Tamora Pierce

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a…

— John Ruskin

I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare…

— Patrick Rothfuss

We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air,…

— Gunther Rall

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came…

— Charles Dickens