Distance Quote by John Byng

We was like two ships that clashed in the night.

— Archie Bunker

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with…

— Douglas Bader

“[Southward and a little west A thousand kilometers at best Here in Area Fifty-one Is where they took us, all undone. Other ships are…

— Marcha A. Fox

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we…

— James Stockdale

We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

— Chester W. Nimitz

We may have all come on different ships, but were in the same boat now.

— Martin Luther Jr

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

— Anonymous

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with…

— Barbara Tuchman

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

— Rose George

Indeed, that is exactly what they [the Arctic convoys] were. We know that the conditions in which they fought were appalling. Time and again…

— Vladimir Putin

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the…

— Erik Larson