Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Only those who row the boat make waves

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

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

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Shooting of a sex scene is never going to something where you're having a wonderful time. It's a very intimate thing and a very intimate space to be put into - that's usually a space reserved for one. To have someone else in that proximity is pretty jarring, but we're all in the same boat and we're all experiencing the same anxieties.

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

The Israel Palestine thing, there are infinite sides to each side, but if we stick to the main sides, everybody's in the same boat and it's maddening to me for people not to understand what's in both their best interest.

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

There's a price to pay for the speed, and that is danger. And to push that hard on a boat - it does take a lot out of you and is incredibly stressful.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.