"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to……" — Francis Drake
"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
More Ashore Quotes
- The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few… — Tacitus
- No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore. — Drake
- The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the… — Ferdinand Magellan
- [T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this… — P.J. O'Rourke
- Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must… — Unknown Author
- I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to… — Mikhail Lermontov
- The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. — Poul Anderson
- I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. — Theodore Sturgeon
- Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain.… — Loren Eiseley
- To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should… — Fatos Nano
- The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a… — Upton Sinclair