I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. — Henry David Thoreau
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. — Barney Ross
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. — Claude McKay
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. — Anita Loos
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with. — Hedy Lamarr
Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. — John Green
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres
Short Aboard Quotes
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. — Grover Cleveland
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross
Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you. — Amy Dickinson
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J. P. Donleavy
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir
In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. — Dave Barry
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry. — Harold Stephen Black
Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate. — William Shakespeare
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard. — Seneca
Aboard Image Quotes
All Aboard Quotes
We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem. — Duke Ellington
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with. — Bob Hope
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone. — Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard. — Lin Yutang
The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent. — Mick Garris
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore. — Al Purdy
A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard! — Esme Raji Codell
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him. — Benjamin Franklin
Come Aboard Quotes
The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too. — St. Vincent
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view. — Yann Martel
The true courage of space flight is not sitting aboard 6 million pounds of fire and thunder as one rockets away from this planet. True courage comes in enduring, persevering, the preparation and believing in oneself. — Ronald McNair
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. — William Adams
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again. — William Kidd
I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York. — Carl Paladino
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard. — Harriet Tubman
I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a bloody big wheat trade too, so get your priorities right." And he said, "Okay, Bob. I'll come." I rang George and he was very appreciative. — Bob Hawke
Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere? — Eoin Colfer
Polar Express Quotes
At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe. — Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go? — Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. — Chris Van Allsburg
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. — Chris Van Allsburg
Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe. — Chris Van Allsburg
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. — Leonard Maltin
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear! — Will Ferrell
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on. — Alan Shepard
If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog. — Tom Regan
I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. — John Paul DeJoria
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. — Diane Ackerman
I live to feel her fingers move inside of me like this. The bus makes another stop. A fat man climbs aboard, hauling himself up the stairs. I would kill him for one more moment with her fingers inside me. I don’t have to. She gives me my moment for free. He lives because of her generosity. We all live because of her generosity. — Joey Comeau
As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound. — Buzz Aldrin
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. — Paul Getty
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty. — Harold Wilson
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" — Arthur C. Clarke
Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty. — Dean Koontz
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. — Emanuel Cleaver
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific. — Tony Curtis
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers. — John Updike
Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer. — Bruce Henderson
I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue. — Janice Hahn
It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft. — Dave Reichert
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me. — Don Pendleton
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain? — Gustave Flaubert
The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. — Jack London
Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled. — J. William Fulbright
The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that. — Emeric Pressburger
Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have. — Leroy Chiao
When I'm onstage and the singer sings, "I think about childhood friends and the dreams we had" and "on board I'm the captain, so climb aboard and we'll search for tomorrow forever more."My head is down because I'm trying to keep the beat. I'll turn and look at the audience and my eyes will scan the entire space. This is a transcendent moment. I can't explain it. It has a lot of meaning to me. — Chuck Panozzo
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since. — Malcolm X
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