Boat Quote by Daniel Defoe

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails…

— Ralph Gibson

Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the…

— Hannah Flagg Gould

You know what, I distinctly remember my boat blew up and I was killed!

— Jeremy Clarkson

I looked at one little print for a long time. It was called 'The Landing.' It showed men tugging on a rope, pulling a…

— Frederick Banting

“The most worst scenario.... I mean if this happen to me and to be so deep in the sea and sailing oh hell... let's…

— Deyth Banger

On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat…

— Tori Murden

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a…

— Al Purdy

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along,…

— Sarah Dessen

I missed the boat when I was doing Late Night.

— Chris Elliott

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Years ago, when my wife and I were dating, she took me on a day trip to the seaside at Brighton. It was my…

— Bill Bryson

You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of…

— Henry James