Sail Quotes

512 quotes by 403 authors

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep… — Arthur Ashe
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common… — Joseph Addison
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there… — John Calvin
In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea! — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be… — John F. Kennedy
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi
In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears,… — Charles Spurgeon
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain
Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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