Sailed Quotes

84 Sailed quotes by 74 unique authors

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should… — Christopher Columbus
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. — Helen Keller
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when… — Joshua Slocum
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. — Gene Tierney
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name… — John Travolta
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would… — Niecy Nash
I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I… — Steve Martin
I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The… — Willa Cather
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed. — Dean Koontz
And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own… — Maurice Sendak
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care —… — Emily Dickinson
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.… — W. Somerset Maugham
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. — Michael Ondaatje
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… — Tom Robbins
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… — Virginia Woolf
They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They… — Rick Riordan
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling… — Jodi Picoult
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to… — Cassandra Clare
I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still… — Hal Borland

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