Quote by L.A. Meyer

“My ship had lost crew mates before, yet I sailed on.”

— L.M. Bryski

“And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you’ll find me aboard, traveling…

— Antonio Machado

“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the…

— Sara Levine

“Without the men, ships are nothing but empty shells of metal. It’s the men who give the ship life, who turn it from a…

— Douglas Mumphrey

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“O Ocean, you remind me somewhat of the bluish marks one sees on the battered backs of cabin boys.”

— Lautreamont

“I'm much too much the popular pet ever since I sang 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' at the village concert last year. I…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters…

— Philip Larkin

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.”

— Roselle Mercier Montgomery

“As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor”

— Deana J. Driver

“As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their "sea legs" on, and shiver their timbers…

— Louisa May Alcott

“I am like a ship, cast out in the ocean to bob aimlessly amidst the waves. No, I correct myself silently. Not a ship.…

— Jillian Eaton