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“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships…

— David McCullough

“The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes,”

— Mark Twain

“I took the long way back, past the swaying lights of the harbor, the air heavy with brine and with chimney smoke from a…

— Ransom Riggs

“The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the…

— Scott Turow

“I forced my way to the brink, stepped into the boat, pushed it, with the help of the tree-branches, out into the stream, lay…

— George MacDonald

“The lights of the town and of the harbour and of the boats seemed like a phantom net floating there to mark something that…

— Virginia Woolf

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But…

— Anthony Horowitz

“How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped…

— Marcel Proust

“In the stream of life, you row your boat alone.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When it's steamboat time, you steam

— Mark Twain

“I’m tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float —…

— Verne Harnish