Ship Quotes

860 quotes by 656 authors

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to… — Saint Boniface
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain… — Unknown Author
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. — Wes Fesler
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,… — Truman Capote
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck. — Al-Ghazali
Love slowly like a ship full of flowers. — Sidney Nolan
The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or… — Wendell Berry
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
Don't give up the ship! — James Lawrence
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship. — Louisa May Alcott
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of… — Isaac Asimov
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship. — Lynn Dickey
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard
The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered… — Hilary of Poitiers
While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden that wings are to a… — E. Stanley Jones
On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass. — James David Manning
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife… — Leonard Cohen

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