Sailing Quotes

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

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...

Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

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.

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.

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.

Beware of those who would try to talk you into believing that you are incapable of sailing the ship of your dream.

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

Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.

It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.

We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!

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

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.

You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

[Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower] 'No other contemporary officer approached his accumulated experience...' From Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814.