Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn… — Lauren Oliver
But only a fool sails into combat with nature — Robert Harris
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued… — Benjamin Carson
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic… — Carl Sagan
Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the… — Ellen Hopkins
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. — Napoleon Bonaparte
[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. — Johnny Depp
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. — Susanna Kearsley
By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I… — Steve Erickson
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. — Erin Morgenstern
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the seaâ€”that stirring landlocked children know so wellâ€”moved in her now, with the golden stars… — Catherynne M. Valente
We canâ€™t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. — Thomas S. Monson
So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do… — Thomas S. Monson
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if… — Virginia Woolf
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us… — Laurie Halse Anderson
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and… — Kate Braverman
Iâ€™m saying your name in the grocery store, Iâ€™m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost,… — Richard Siken
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville

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385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: