Best 251 quotes in «boat quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

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 hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

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

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

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.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

We are always making more and more stuff in the world. You know; big buildings, big planes, big boats and that. Will we ever get to a point where all this is too heavy for the world to handle?