Ships Quotes · Page 31

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink.…

— Emanuel Celler

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not…

— Sam Nunn

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story…

— Steven Strait

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has…

— Alan Villiers

I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is…

— Rose George

“There are many so-called glorious and invincible ships now rotting beneath the oceans! Most of them – with high conceit – had…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,…

— Walt Whitman

I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during…

— Don Pendleton

To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have…

— George Takei

“All merchant ships have load lines painted on both the port and starboard sides amidships. In most cases these markings are welded…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Farrell Lines was a concept envisioned by James A. Farrell Sr., the son of a ship’s captain and the president of the…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing…

— C. S. Lewis

Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which…

— Shirley Hazzard

“The definition for the “Poop Deck” as found in nautical books would lead you to believe that the name was derived from…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains,…

— Abraham Verghese

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like…

— Michael Chabon

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now…

— Robert Southey

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it…

— Seth Godin

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in…

— Seneca the Younger

I really think of it - acting and writing and producing, whatever - as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together…

— Rob Corddry

For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence…

— Errol Flynn

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and…

— Marcus Rediker

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.…

— Joseph O'Neill

I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe…

— Sylvia Plath

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland…

— Bill Watterson

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no…

— Plautus

Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets…

— James Cameron

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple…

— Ben Parr

The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed…

— Adriana Trigiani

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the…

— Dwight L. Moody

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they…

— Radclyffe Hall

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…

— Noam Chomsky

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could…

— David Markson

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to…

— Vince Flynn

Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space…

— Donald Keyhoe