Ship Quotes

860 Ship quotes by 656 unique authors

The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little… — Kami Garcia
I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. — Deb Caletti
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. — Sylvia Plath
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a… — Dashiell Hammett
White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to… — Cassandra Clare
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole… — Jerome K. Jerome
Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt… — John Flanagan
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered… — William James
Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the… — David Markson
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the… — Philip K. Dick
On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you) — Scott Spencer
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful. — Ally Carter
Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell… — Cassandra Clare
But that's what you're doing, isn't it? You're part of the fight just as much as the Shadowhunters on the ship—and I know you can… — Cassandra Clare
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry? — Sebastian Junger
Maybe I can put it another way... Life, Charlie Brown, is like a deck chair." "Like a what?" "Have you ever been on a cruise… — Charles M. Schulz
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like. — Gail Carriger
Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the… — Lev Grossman
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. — Erin Morgenstern
And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. — Christopher Paolini
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. — Sarah Dessen
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault

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