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