Around the world Quote by Conor Oberst

“If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people…

— Alan Hirsch

“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry captures this well: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them…

— James K.A. Smith

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

— Malcolm Bradbury

“a ship could be built entirely from foreign planks, but it must have its own form”

— Osip Mandelstam

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea.…

— Billy Campbell

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on…

— Nick Flynn

“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots and shells…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How…

— Stephen Wright

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to…

— Christopher Columbus

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries,…

— Noel Coward