Anchors Quote by William Bligh

The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against…

— Madeline Miller

Once Her ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed…

— Joshua Slocum

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a…

— Gregory Harrison

Time is the stuff between pay days

— William Shakespeare

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to…

— Warren MacKenzie

While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but…

— David Jason

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain,…

— Samuel Smiles

“the company—that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel…

— Henry James

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the…

— Gil Amelio

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

— Seneca the Younger

“A terrible skipper was going back and forth through the anchorage, searching for a place to drop the hook before dark. Looking up to…

— Ed Robinson