Ship Quotes

860 Ship quotes by 656 unique authors

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on… — John Masefield
When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion. — D. H. Lawrence
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain… — Arthur C. Clarke
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H. L. Mencken
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which… — Unknown Author
But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of… — R. M. Ballantyne
Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand… — George Clooney
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander'… — Billy Campbell
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw… — Billy Campbell
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if… — Billy Campbell
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing. — Daniel Clowes
When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though… — Edward Carpenter
I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand… — Helen Clark
I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood. — Johnny Galecki
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm… — Phil Anselmo
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship. — Bob Dylan
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on… — David Allan Coe
A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people. — Garrison Keillor
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato
Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail… — Leonard Cohen
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who… — Gram Parsons
In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food.… — Nina Fedoroff
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical.… — Chris Hadfield
Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible… — Nina Hagen

Who Wrote These Ship Quotes

656 authors contributed a total of 860 Ship Quotes, led by these top contributors: