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I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey… — Alvin Martin
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high… — Fritz Sauckel
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep. — Fritz Sauckel
They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is… — Unknown Author
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must… — Henry David Thoreau
We were wavering around like a ship without a sail. — Judy Holliday
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. — Robert Bork
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible… — Susan Wiggs
Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men. — Richard Hakluyt
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands… — Beryl Markham
A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by… — Louis Aragon
In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As… — Chris Hadfield
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships. — Charles Simic
Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and… — L. Tom Perry
Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair,… — William Banting
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once… — Jimmy Page
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding… — Edward Smith
Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that… — Thomas Andrews
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships… — Thomas Jefferson
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a… — George Sand
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. .… — Unknown Author
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Unknown Author
Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The… — Walt Whitman

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