Sailor Quotes

233 quotes by 174 authors

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in… — Mary Roach
Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are… — Bob Dylan
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the… — Megan Fox
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. — Anna Freud
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in… — Frank Gehry
Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would… — Lane Evans
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a… — Samuel Johnson
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that… — Jon Kyl
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of… — John Locke
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that… — Gilbert Parker
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. — Walter Scott
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had… — Patti Smith
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. — Leonardo da Vinci
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those… — Tom Waits
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity… — Allen West
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long… — Thomas Wolfe
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need… — Tullian Tchividjian
The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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