Boat Quotes
848 quotes by 706 authors
-
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep…
— Arthur Ashe
-
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul…
— George Matthew Adams
-
Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll…
— Travis Barker
-
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
— Bernard Baruch
-
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with…
— Andrea Bocelli
-
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit…
— Elayne Boosler
-
Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
— Jeff Bridges
-
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching…
— Warren Buffett
-
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
— Coco Chanel
-
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
— Woody Allen
-
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers…
— Harlan Coben
-
Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his…
— Calvin Coolidge
-
Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and…
— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
-
I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
— Ernest K. Gann
-
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every…
— Alex Blackwell
-
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.
— Bernard Moitessier
-
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.
— Hammond Innes
-
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.
— Vito Dumas
-
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
— Donald Hamilton
Who Wrote These Boat Quotes
706 authors contributed a total of 848 Boat Quotes, led by these top contributors: