Seaman Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. — Laurence J. Peter
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. — William Petty
Demon?â€ Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of color. â€œDid you just say demon?â€ Oh, uhâ€¦did I say that?â€ Strider… — Gena Showalter
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... — Joseph Conrad
And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. — John Motson
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: