Boards Quote by Claude Martin

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia…

— George R. R. Martin

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

— Bela Kiraly

Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag…

— Rose George

I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.

— Tom Peters

The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have…

— Henry Clay

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

— George Washington

When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two shits about…

— Tanc Sade

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

— Gilbert Baker

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

— Thomas Aquinas

I can't tell people what flag to fly.

— Lesley Stahl

“repair aboard flag.”

— Tori L. Harris

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare