Found Quote by Christopher Columbus

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl

“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the…

— Yukio Mishima

“They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought…

— James Carlos Blake

“The NELLIE, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the…

— Joseph Conrad

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as…

— Virginia Woolf

“We sailed for more days than I knew how to count, sometimes hugging the mainland coast, sometimes passing from one island to another over…

— Esther M. Friesner

nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to…

— Anonymous

“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the…

— James Jones

We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless, we were…

— Henry David Thoreau

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.…

— William Golding

“Phyrne leaned on the ship's rail, listening to the sea-gulls announcing that land was near, and waited for the first hint of sunrise. She…

— Kerry Greenwood