Quotes and Sayings About Ships
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But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
-- Alain de Botton -
It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
-- Alan Green -
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
-- Alan Shepard -
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship
-- Amiri Baraka -
Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
-- Andre Maurois -
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder.
-- Andy Partridge -
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
-- Anna Godbersen -
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?
-- Anzia Yezierska -
This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.
-- Arleigh Burke -
That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.
-- Avery Johnson -
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
-- Barney Ross -
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
-- Bernard Baruch -
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
-- Beverly Cleary -
What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
-- Bill Watterson -
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
-- Billy Campbell -
Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.
-- Bob Burg -
Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
-- Bob Dylan -
We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish.
-- Brendan -
As far as the quote-unquote shipping community goes, I love the passion behind anyone who ships Caroline and Klaus. They are very hardcore shippers...
-- Candice Accola -
We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
-- Cary Grant -
Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.
-- Catherine Ponder -
This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
-- Charles Frohman -
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
-- Charles Simic -
Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.
-- Charles Spurgeon