Sailed Quotes
84 quotes by 76 authors
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I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt…
— John Burroughs
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Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find…
— Joseph C. Lincoln
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At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood,…
— Alice Sebold
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
— Barbara Tuchman
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I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He…
— Amy Carmichael
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I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man…
— Rob Bell
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
— William Butler Yeats
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From Finding the Center to Reading and Writing: A Personal Account, the story remains the same: in a journey unique to myself, I left my…
— Caryl Phillips
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the…
— Joshua Slocum
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut,…
— Joshua Slocum
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Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a…
— Joshua Slocum
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There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship…
— Albert Finney
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Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
— Margaret Atwood
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You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
— Andrew Jackson
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The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
— Countee Cullen
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They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near…
— Tom Clancy
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell…
— Henry David Thoreau
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