Sailor quotes
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Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
-- Abby Sunderland -
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
-- Anna Freud -
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
-- Arthur Laffer -
Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
-- Carl Sagan -
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I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.
-- Doug Davidson -
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
-- Edmund Waller -
So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee
-- Emmylou Harris -
I'm what you call a Depression sailor.
-- Ernest Borgnine -
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Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.
-- Francis Chichester -
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
-- Frank Gehry -
Calm seas never made a good sailor
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I'm a sailor, not a politician.
-- Fritz Sauckel -
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She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
-- H. L. Mencken -
For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.
-- Hal Moore -
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I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
-- Hugo Vihlen -
Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.
-- James Lawrence -
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.
-- Janet Flanner -
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
-- Jimmy Webb -
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
-- John Locke -
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
-- John Ratzenberger -
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
-- Kathy Acker -
I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.
-- Keith Coogan -
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I have the mouth of a sailor.
-- Kristen Bell -
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
-- L.A. Meyer -
It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.
-- Larry Craig -
Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.
-- Leah Remini -
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The northern people are riders and the southern people sailors; it is said quite true.
-- Liu Bei -
A good sailor knows everything is always changing.
-- Luanne Rice -
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
-- Lynn Austin -
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.
-- Lynn Austin -
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Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.
-- Naoko Takeuchi -
The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.
-- Nicholas Rodger -
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain.
-- Rick Yancey -
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To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
-- Ricky Gervais -
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
It is part of a sailor's life to die well.
-- Stephen Decatur -
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
-- Thomas Gibbons -
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The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.
-- Tom Feeney -
Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!
-- William Allingham -
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.
-- Tobias Lindholm -
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
-- Brian Blessed -
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Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.
-- Peter Levi
