Seaman Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get…
— Paul Auster
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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is…
— James Callaghan
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That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep…
— Brian Clough
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Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's…
— Michael Mullen
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When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name…
— Brad Wilkerson
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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
— Joseph Conrad
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Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where…
— John Sergeant Wise
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He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
— Brian Jacques
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Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
— Horatio Nelson
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
— William Petty
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Demon?†Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of color. “Did you just say demon?†Oh, uh…did I say that?†Strider…
— Gena Showalter
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...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...
— Joseph Conrad
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And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
— John Motson
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I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it.
— David Walker
Who Wrote These Seaman Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Seaman Quotes as follows: