Sailor Quotes

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

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

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...

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.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

The rain washed away my pitcher's mound... I'm a pitcher without a mound... I'm a lost soul... I'm like a politician out of office." "Or a sailor without an ocean..." "Or a boy without a girl.

If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

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.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

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.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

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.

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.