Sail Quotes

512 quotes by 385 authors

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only… — Roger Bacon
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness… — Johannes Kepler
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of… — Mark Twain
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that… — Yukio Mishima
Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and youâ€™ve performed all… — Robert Plant
It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. — Unknown Author
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. — Mariella Frostrup
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails. — Thomas Fleming Day
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca the Younger
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she… — Elizabeth Edwards
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. — Louis L'Amour
Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever… — LaVell Edwards
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Unknown Author
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo… — Gustave Flaubert
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands! — Davy Jones
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once… — G. Campbell Morgan
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the… — Chris Gardner

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