Boat Quotes

848 Boat quotes by 678 unique authors

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it… — Anne Sexton
A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,… — Douglas Coupland
Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it… — Stephen R. Lawhead
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas… — John Cleese
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there… — Neil Gaiman
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I… — C.S. Lewis
She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe — Stephen King
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came… — C.S. Lewis
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. — Bill Cosby
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age… — Matsuo Basho
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the… — C.S. Lewis
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and… — George Carlin
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on… — Haruki Murakami
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And… — Unknown Author
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano… — R. Buckminster Fuller
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables… — Haruki Murakami
Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what… — Joss Whedon
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome

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