Sailors Quotes

97 Sailors quotes by 86 unique authors

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
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
The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true. — Liu Bei
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
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or… — George Santayana
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping… — Alice Munro
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with… — Tom Clancy
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals. — Larry Craig
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and… — Mahatma Gandhi
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. — William C. Brown
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for… — Dave Barry
I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors. — Doug Davidson
Ships are but boards, sailors but men. — William Shakespeare
Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds… — Homer

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