Sailing Ships Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

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
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
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
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
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep. — Fritz Sauckel
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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14 authors contributed a total of 15 Sailing Ships Quotes as follows: