Boat Quotes

848 Boat quotes by 678 unique authors

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your… — Margaret Atwood
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the… — Meg Rosoff
Time is a river, and books are boats. — Dan Brown
Uh, folks, I think that’s our boat trying to kill us. (Scott) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried her body to… — Daphne du Maurier
She remembered was hope was, and this was it. That inner churning that moves you forward, plows you through life the way the boats plowed… — Elizabeth Strout
The rising tide lifts all the boats. — John F. Kennedy
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would… — Ernest Hemingway
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the… — Virginia Woolf
We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered. — Rick Riordan
They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said.… — Rick Riordan
Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says… — Rick Riordan
The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then… — Elizabeth Gilbert
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again… — Dante Alighieri
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can… — Richard Bach
Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at the end of the… — Mira Grant
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,… — Tove Jansson
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when… — Gabrielle Zevin
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the… — Gordon Korman
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while… — James M. Barrie
I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea. — William Ellery Channing
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit… — Robin McKinley

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