Country Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary…

— Jim Elliot

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

— Edward Heath

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

— Peter Sarsgaard

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases…

— Charles Darwin

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

— George William Curtis

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual.…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

“If you want to see what my Earthsea looks like, you could sail past the Scilly Isles (handy for you Brits); or you could…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

— Paulo Coelho

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

— Herman Melville

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their…

— Christopher Columbus

“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia…

— Thomas Sowell