Sailing Quotes
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.
Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
