Sailor Quotes

233 quotes by 182 authors

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take… — Fritz Sauckel
Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors. — Maddox
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for… — Diane Johnson
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying… — Jean Paul Gaultier
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to… — Katherine Mansfield
There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that… — James Abourezk
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and… — Michael Foley
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight. — Unknown Author
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten… — Carl Sagan
I'm what you call a Depression sailor. — Ernest Borgnine
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
We could say they government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money. — Ronald Reagan
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller
I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for… — L. Ron Hubbard
He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side… — Winston Churchill
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. — Arthur Laffer
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that… — Assata Shakur

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