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Ship Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that…
- About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
More Ship Quotes
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that… — Abu Abbas
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and… — Paul Auster
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all. — Lynda Barry
- We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. — Bernard Baruch
- The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. — Giotto di Bondone
- Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley
- One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. — John Bunyan
- I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott
- I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed.… — James Callaghan
- Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst… — John Calvin