Sailor Quotes

233 quotes by 174 authors

Calm seas never made a good sailor — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. — Liu Bei
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout… — Charles Spurgeon
But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the… — Hugh Shelton
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep;… — Hans Christian Andersen
And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just… — Anne Bronte
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except… — Jerome K. Jerome
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. — George Eliot
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they… — Charles Dickens
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. — Charles Dickens
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another… — Charles Dickens
The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a… — H. Rider Haggard
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded… — Charles Dickens
"Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and… — Charles Dickens
"I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove… — Charles Dickens
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the… — Herman Melville
No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean… — Herman Melville
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. — Herman Melville
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the… — Herman Melville

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