Ships Quotes
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)
Ships are but boards, sailors but men. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth. (Quote by - Gavin MacLeod)
The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that. (Quote by - Emeric Pressburger)
And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out. (Quote by - Pamela Stephenson)
For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, And closes from behind. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas. (Quote by - George Allen)
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters: These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. (Quote by - Bible)
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. (Quote by - John L. Phillips)
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. (Quote by - Jose C. Orozco)
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. (Quote by - Frank Gaffney)
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is. (Quote by - Wilson Greatbatch)
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions. (Quote by - William Falconer)
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. (Quote by - John Byng)
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. (Quote by - William Bligh)
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. (Quote by - Barney Ross)
There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart. (Quote by - Elizabeth Ward)
It would have been as though he [President Andrew Johnson] were in a boat of stone with masts of steel, sails of lead, ropes of iron, the devil at the helm, the wrath of God for a breeze, and hell for his destination. (Quote by - Emery Alexander Storrs)
Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. (Quote by - Corey Feldman)
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Quote by - Grace Hopper)
To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous. (Quote by - John Hewson)
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)
And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. (Quote by - Gary Oldman)
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. (Quote by - William Whipple)
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. (Quote by - George William Norris)
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. (Quote by - Stuart Symington)
Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on. (Quote by - Thomas Kibble Hervey)
Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt. (Quote by - John Hawkins)
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after. (Quote by - Gil Gerard)
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. (Quote by - Thomas Keneally)
Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore, now. (Quote by - Charles Dibdin)
The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships. (Quote by - Peter S. Beagle)
She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. (Quote by - Gilda Radner)
The true ship is the ship builder. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. (Quote by - Dan Aykroyd)
Two lives that once part are as ships that divide. (Quote by - Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. (Quote by - Charles Simic)
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. (Quote by - Wendell Willkie)
For she is such a smart little craft, Such a neat little, sweet little craft-- Such a bright little, Tight little, Slight little, Light little, Trim little, slim little craft! (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
Ships that sailed for sunny isles, But never came to shore. (Quote by - Thomas Kibble Hervey)
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going? (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. (Quote by - Jean M. Auel)
Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
