Boat Quotes

848 quotes by 706 authors

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black. — Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls… — Alan Villiers
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits. — Bernard Moitessier
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand — Alex Blackwell
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride… — Anthony of Padua
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in… — Jesse Jackson
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts… — Lou Holtz
Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat… — Richard Bach
If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking… — Jack Nicklaus
The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go… — Tacitus
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering… — Winston Churchill
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. — Alice Munro
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I… — Angela Carter
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind… — Eric Hoffer
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to… — Pema Chodron
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea. — Lord Byron
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. — Carlos Fuentes

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