Port Quotes

213 Port quotes by 175 unique authors

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur. — Kenneth Williams
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left… — Zig Ziglar
All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export.… — Jo Ann Emerson
Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that… — Kendrick Meek
We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the… — David Ben-Gurion
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New… — Alfred Kazin
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. — Francine Busby
House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated… — Dennis Cardoza
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port… — Junipero Serra
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
We feel the breath of the wind upon our cheeks, we see the dust and the leaves blowing before the wind, we see the vessels… — Reuben Archer Torrey
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the… — John Galsworthy
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to… — Mark Twain
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing,… — Salman Khurshid
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security. — Dianne Feinstein
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also… — Allyson Schwartz
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go… — Ruben Blades
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off… — Christian Nestell Bovee
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to… — Jonathan Raban
Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with… — Ezekiel Hopkins
We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration. — Jim Ramstad
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of… — Catherine Helen Spence

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