Boards Quote by Paula McLain

“  ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING?’ Leopold asked after many hours,”

— Michael Foster

“We held on to each other and looked out at the sea. It was impossibly large and full of beauty and danger in equal…

— Paula McLain

“On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon … A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the strange ship over…

— Laurence Bergreen

“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily.…

— Michela Wrong

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would become all…

— Tim Jeal

“and it seemed to me that we was like seafarers, and the tober was the ocean. We was passing the landlubbers by. We gawped…

— Jeanine Cummins

“Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea that had…

— Elizabeth Bowen

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

— William Hague

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

— Mary Pope Osborne

“Columbus led wooden sailing ships across an ocean, seeking a new world. Today we sail with ships of metal across the cosmic ocean, seeking…

— Daniel Arenson

“The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short…

— Alfred Lansing