Ships Quotes · Page 10

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

— Peter S. Beagle

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

— Al-Ghazali

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

— Susan Jeffers

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

— John Pugsley

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

— B. C. Forbes

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

— Jane Austen

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom…

— Malcolm X

When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.

— Sean Connery

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

— Joseph Bayly

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes…

— Anonymous

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use…

— Mark Dever

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

— Hayao Miyazaki

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not…

— Edward Carpenter

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out…

— Stuart Symington

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in…

— Rose George

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised…

— Sarah MacLean

There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of…

— Cassandra Clare

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out…

— Tamora Pierce

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged,…

— Janet Fitch

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking…

— Walter Mosley

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

We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in…

— Paul Jewell

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

I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it…

— Vance Havner

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to…

— Ralph Gibson

Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the…

— William Booth

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

— James Joyce

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

— Alan Green

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

— Stewart Francis

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

— Charles Davis

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.”

— John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

— Herbert Hoover

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

— Greer Garson

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”

— Ben Bryant