Sailing Quote by Diana Gabaldon

“All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships. When we break up under the heavy years…

— Lord Dunsany

“If I be just a page torn out of a book, May I sail forever over the oceans blue, Float over the treetops and…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and go like…

— Anne Brontë

“The ocean lives and wanders free, happily to flow gracefully with the wind.”

— J. Kahele

“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky. [A Writer’s…

— Susan L. Marshall

“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the…

— Lord Byron

“For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense…

— Kathleen Norris

“And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some…

— Virginia Woolf

“There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been. The…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb…

— Herman Melville