Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in. — Christie Watson
Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail; paddle towards the land. — American Proverbs
Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame
Don’t sail out farther than you can row back. — Danish Proverbs
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. — Oren Lyons
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Saunders
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal. — Pierre Trudeau
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. — John Green
You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. — Mark Twain
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role. — Sayings
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. — Rumi
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it. — Greer Garson
If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life. — Varahamihira
Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers
Understand the boat and the boat will understand you. — Scottish Proverbs
The boat follows the helm, the woman follows her husband. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe. — Henry David Thoreau
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If there is no wind, row.
Rowboat Quotes
All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak. — Stefan G. Bucher
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific. — John Fox, Jr.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you. — Zig Ziglar
I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me. — Zig Ziglar
For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process. — Jim Jarmusch
The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Ladies have come up with all these expressions to reassure men. "Oh, honey, it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean." That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat. — Jeff Foxworthy
Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was. — Judi Dench
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
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat
comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth
all the years of sorrow that are to come. — Jack Gilbert
River Boat Quotes
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. — George Carlin
Success in a start up is being around tomorrow, a lot of days in a row.
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed. — John Gierach
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. — Wendell Berry
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. — Patrick F. McManus
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't. — John Gierach
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them. — John Gierach
Fishing Boats Quotes
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. — Patrick Young
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart — Roderick Haig-Brown
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. — Edward Abbey
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? — Edward Abbey
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains. — Alexander Pope
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret. — Jonathan Swift
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. — John Gierach
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Boat Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott
Boats And Sailing Quotes
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. — Arthur Ashe
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. — Ramakrishna
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn
The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock
Sailboat Quotes
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. — Michelle Shocked
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. — Alan Villiers
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
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
There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way. — Harry S. Truman
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
Only those who row the boat make waves — Christina Dodd
Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars. — Esther Hicks
Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds. — Jeffrey R. Holland
Little boats should keep near shore — Benjamin Franklin
Nodding the head does not row the boat. — Irish Proverbs
A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together. — David Reuben
I jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt. — Thom Yorke
Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the world of infinite possibilities separating man and his potential. We had four miles and the best competition in the nation. We linked hands in the boat and committed ourselves to each other. — Stefan Kieszling
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited. — Drew Ginn
Anyone who has not rowed in a really close Boat Race cannot comprehend the level of the pain. — Daniel Topolski
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. — Demetri Martin
The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing. — Brad Alan Lewis
A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE). — Unknown
Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward. — Christopher Allsopp
The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat! — Phillip Thomas
Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon. — Brad Alan Lewis
Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. — Alice Munro
You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me. — Mary Oliver
Marriage is like a row boat: it fits two, it doesn't work on auto-pilot and it's very difficult to have sex in. — Dana Gould
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. — James Patterson
Russia has named Vladimir Putin its man of the year for the 15th year in a row. Putin got 143 million votes and the guy he was up against got killed in a mysterious boating accident. The boat was in a warehouse. — Conan O'Brien
[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings. — V. S. Pritchett
When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower. — Phillip Thomas
What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew. — Daniel James Brown
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward. — Theodore Roethke
Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness. — Brad Alan Lewis
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see. — Daniel Topolski
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon. — Barry S. Strauss
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it. — Barry S. Strauss
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end. — Barry S. Strauss
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing. — Jim Dietz
When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing? — Vilhelm Moberg
I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat — Kiersten White
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. — Ernest Hemingway
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle. — Meg Rosoff
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. — Jean-Paul Sartre
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