Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

I read sometime around 1938 of Jewish fines and some street actions against them. But I was too concerned with U-Boats and the naval problems to be concerned about Jews.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

Let the boat work - and not me!

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

Only those who row the boat make waves

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.