Sail Quotes
512 quotes by 385 authors
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Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped…
— George W. Bush
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I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.
— Casper Van Dien
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The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens…
— Jean Genet
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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt…
— Herman Melville
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The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails…
— Samuel Rutherford
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When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
— Johannes Kepler
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We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it…
— Henry Waxman
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing…
— John Milton
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Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
— Austin O'Malley
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O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load…
— Unknown Author
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Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
— Dana Burnet
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Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
— Austin O'Malley
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Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span…
— Elizabeth Aston
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Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
— Khalil Gibran
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I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk…
— Alexander Wang
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I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey…
— Alvin Martin
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
— David Hare
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of…
— Donald Cram
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For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is…
— Edward Kennedy
Who Wrote These Sail Quotes
385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: