Boat Quote by Herman Melville

“And I would have answered: "The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is…

— Sjón

The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

— Francois Fenelon

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the…

— Homer

“The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections…

— Virginia Woolf

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

— Bhartrhari

“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the…

— Jane Austen

We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to…

— Gordon Korman

“Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no…

— Scott Lynch

“To the Harbormaster" I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got caught in some moorings.…

— Frank O'Hara

“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more…

— Steve Himmer

“Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand's reach, yet I durst not handle it.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But time’s a river, Locke, and we’ve always drifted farther down it than we think.”

— Scott Lynch