Ships Quotes · Page 5

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Josephson

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

— William Shakespeare

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

— William Bradford

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

— Avery Johnson

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

— Stephen Colbert

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

— Lynda Barry

Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!

— Joshua Slocum

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect…

— Libba Bray

Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which…

— Emilie du Chatelet

“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but…

— Ted Anthony Roberts

[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it…

— Will Rogers

Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are…

— Abigail Adams

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

— Sadie Jones

Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more…

— Celine Kiernan

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth…

— Anonymous

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to…

— Neal A. Maxwell

A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and…

— Anonymous

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I…

— Elizabeth David

I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to…

— Paul Auster

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper…

— Joseph Conrad

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the…

— George Sand

“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell…

— Tracy Guzeman

“The discussion proceeded very similarly to the first, although this time things were a bit more technical in nature. The advantage of…

— Tad Fitch

There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment.…

— Buzz Aldrin

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at…

— Bill Murray

Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the…

— Alice Munro

I was in Los Angeles. I saw the biggest ships you have ever seen with cars pouring off from Japan, into Los…

— Donald Trump

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater…

— D. H. Lawrence

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

— Bill Watterson

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

— John Hawkins

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

— Whoopi Goldberg

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

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

— Charles M. Schulz

The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

— J. Michael Straczynski