The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! — Bryan Procter
Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. — Kathryn Kuhlman
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. — John Edward Masefield
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. — Hermann Broch
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man. — Danish Proverbs
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. — David Lloyd George
It’s similar to what sailors feel when they are out at sea – if they meet another ship, they probably feel some kind of brotherhood; it doesn’t matter which flag is on the ship. — Sergei Krikalev
You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes — Greek Proverbs
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. — Vincent Van Gogh
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
Short Sailors And The Sea Quotes
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element. — Robinson Jeffers
The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home. — Larry Ferguson
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. — Enya
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable. — Horatio Nelson
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. — William Wordsworth
Sailors And The Sea Image Quotes
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
Sailors And The Sea Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. — Herman Melville
Captain Of The Sea Quotes
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. — Walt Whitman
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman
You cant cross the sea simply by staring at the water
Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said. — Dave Barry
New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee. — Bill Maher
A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land. — William J. H. Boetcker
The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain of his boat for 20 years, Gregorio Fuentes, and that inspired me to write a screenplay about it. — Andy Garcia
I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank. — Gordon Lightfoot
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king. — Herman Melville
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! . . . . And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore! — W. S. Gilbert
Sailing And The Sea Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, 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 cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea.
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
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
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
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea. — John Townsend Trowbridge
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. — Roald Amundsen
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. — Franz Liszt
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. — Edmondo De Amicis
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell
Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. — Abraham Lincoln
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. — John Ralston Saul
Sailing And Love Quotes
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not the man the less, but nature more.
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. — Bo Derek
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann
The cure for anything is saltwater, sweat, tears, or the sea
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — William Shakespeare
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau
Sailing And Wind Quotes
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
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
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver
I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea — Bernard Moitessier
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Boats And Sailing Quotes
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
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
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
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes
Ships At Sea Quotes
Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press. — Walter Winchell
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
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. — Henry Adams
Spirits rise as the sails fill...
Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
Close the hatches and ports!
We're sailing again! — Jim Moore
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down. — John Masefield
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. — Hans Christian Andersen
And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. — Anne Bronte
We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components. — Otto Neurath
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it. — Herman Melville
There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee — Emmylou Harris
Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port. — Rich Mullins
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. — Jerome K. Jerome
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café — Joseph Beach
I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner
The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse. — Dave Barry
Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,and the hunter home from the hill. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. — Charles Dickens
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company — Samuel Johnson
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. — Rudyard Kipling
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. — Charles Dickens
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. — Charles Dickens
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. — John Masefield
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. — Rudyard Kipling
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction. — Otto Neurath
I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation. — Will Ferrell
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young sailor at sea was ordered to climb a mast to adjust a sail during a violent storm. He got halfway up, looked down, got dizzy and sick. An old sailor on deck shouted up to him Look up, son, look up. Young sailor looked up, regained his composure, and completed his mission. Moral: Look ahead, not back. — Unknown
Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,There's danger on the deep,I'll come and pace the deck with thee,I do not dare to sleep.Go down, the sailor cried, go down,This is no place for thee;Fear not! but trust in Providence,Wherever thou mayst be.Ah! Pilot, dangers often metWe all are apt to slight,And thou hast known these raging wavesBut to subdue their might.It is not apathy, he cried,That gives this strength to me,Fear not but trust in Providence,Wherever thou mayst be.On such a night the sea engulphedMy father's lifeless form;My only brother's boat went downIn just so wild a storm;And such, perhaps, may be my fate,But still I say to thee,Fear not but trust in Providence,Wherever thou mayst be. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw
Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe. — Zeina
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. — Felix Baumgartner
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on. — Honore de Balzac
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm. — Henry Ward Beecher
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon. — Mahatma Gandhi
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