Boats Quotes

185 Boats quotes by 169 unique authors

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are… — George Bernard Shaw
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely… — Wilbur Smith
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here… — Julian Baggini
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face… — Lucille Clifton
Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their… — Susan Fletcher
and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old… — Van Morrison
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
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
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. — Marcel Proust
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
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I… — Pablo Neruda
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. — Frank Herbert
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,… — Leonard Cohen
Time is a river, and books are boats. — Dan Brown
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
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
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
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
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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