Ships Quotes

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.

— Austin O'Malley

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare

He runs a very tightly knit ship

— Rob Hawthorne

The sea is certainly common to all.

— Plautus

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

— Paul Watson

“It's not done until it ships.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Bernard Moitessier

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

— Anonymous

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

— Nicholas Negroponte

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

— Joshua Slocum

Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants won't help.

— John Calvin

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

— Charles M. Schulz

I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships.

— Tara Brown

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

— Ben Jonson

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

— Michael Josephson

Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship…

— Joseph Conrad

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

— Terry Pratchett

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people…

— Lea Michele

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black…

— Erin Morgenstern

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf),

— George Galloway

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river…

— Charles Dickens

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,…

— Christina Stead

I convinced Tim to add one song, and then we added five. We changed a lot of things while we were shooting,…

— John August

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust…

— Eric Metaxas

A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out…

— Thomas Pynchon

I understand we have to keep a significant amount of fossil fuel in the ground. I'm committed to that. But I'm not…

— Jerry Brown

I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers…

— Andy Partridge

Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos…

— Rick Riordan

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had…

— Yann Martel

The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in…

— Livy

I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world,…

— Matt de la Pena

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms…

— James Joyce

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift.…

— Earl Nightingale

While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings…

— E. Stanley Jones