Ship Quotes

860 Ship quotes by 656 unique authors

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me… — Joshua Slocum
It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is… — Ted Knight
Every ship should have a cat. — Alan Villiers
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck. — Paul Virilio
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source… — Kenneth E. Boulding
True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear. — James D. Robinson III
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety… — Elisha Gray
In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship. — Rabbi Akiva
Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants won't help. — John Calvin
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

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