Sailing Quotes
331 quotes by 272 authors
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep…
— Arthur Ashe
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Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul…
— George Matthew Adams
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common…
— Joseph Addison
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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there…
— John Calvin
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Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I…
— Billy Campbell
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls…
— Alan Villiers
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Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
— Charlie Cook
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The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles…
— Lewis Francis Herreshoff
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I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
— Alain Gerbault
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
— Dennis Conner
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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
— Alan Villiers
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I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which…
— Bernard Moitessier
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BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
— Alex Blackwell
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It looks like frozen snot.
— Lewis Francis Herreshoff
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Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.
— Buzzy Trent
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The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.
— Paul Cayard
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Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers…
— Jean Batten
Who Wrote These Sailing Quotes
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