Best 159 quotes in «sailing quotes» category

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's the origin of We Know the Way. From very early on we said, for an audience that doesn't know this, what we need a song that can really have the kind of sweep and the, you know, pull you in. So that was early on, we conceived of like that should be a musical moment [in Maona].

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.

All right boys, let’s sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never grow so old again, And I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. - Sweet Thing

A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins.

At the end of the day…we are anchoring into the peaceful lagoon, smiling at the majestic sun and its flirting rays, slowly slipping into the glittering ballroom of immense night skies, sipping on the platinum moon liquor under the blues of rippling waves kissing my golden foot hanging over the board of gently rocking boat, and diving into the bed of galaxies whispering magical stories of their eternal lives connecting souls…till the dawn…

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.

Dinner for two; save a booth, lace your boots, fondue and fondles, smiles and smooches. We sailed at sunset; skin and snuggles, moon and moans. I've lost myself in you.

Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts." Fidelis O. Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction' (and soon to be published 'Tears before Exaltation')

Evelyn continued to hold the wheel, recognizing the sensation of being in control of the rudder, while Martin explained how the direction of the wind was key, and how all the elements worked together to affect speed. "It's physics," she said, becoming fascinated by the complexity of the air and water flow working together, and comprehending how the shape of the hull and sails and the size of the keel all played an important part in the boat's movement.

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

His introduction throws me. The only time I can envision "Hi, I'm a surgeon" as a fitting introduction is if I were on a gurney in a stark white room and a man wielding a scalpel was standing over me. Plus, it's been a while since we've talked careers with anyone. Jobs are rarely a topic of conversation anymore--they exist in a place and time too far away to seem interesting. "What do you do?" is not a question asked to define someone, because out here we're all working the same jobs: yachties, mechanics, navigators, weather-readers, fishermen, adventure travelers, storytellers.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. - Into the Mystic

Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.

He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

I dreamt of land but that was so long ago. I don't even know if he still exists.

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity. Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

If you feel that you are rotting in a port, nothing can make you happy other than leaving that port and sailing to new ports!