Mariner Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. — Samuel Butler
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way… — Walter Lippmann
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… — Mikhail Lermontov
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a… — Leonard Ravenhill
Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost… — Thomas S. Monson
Again Mariner and Butcher are trying to work the oracle on the near post — Martin Tyler
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner… — Walt Whitman
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a… — Bill Bryson
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. — Luigi Pulci
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape… — Elwyn Brooks White
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… — Clive Barker
For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even… — Patrick O'Brian
Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding… — Thomas S. Monson
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank… — Immanuel Kant
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life… — Paul Watson
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at… — Ronald Steel
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. — English Proverb
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Mariner Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Mariner Quotes as follows: