Sailing Ships Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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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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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
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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 the…
— Jean Batten
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As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
— Fritz Sauckel
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
— Henry David Thoreau
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That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although…
— Rodney Stark
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From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
— Chris Priestley
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Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw…
— Billy Campbell
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An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too,…
— Roger Ebert
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A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten…
— Sterling Hayden
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph…
— Roald Dahl
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Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the…
— Lev Grossman
Who Wrote These Sailing Ships Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Sailing Ships Quotes as follows: