Seafarer Quotes
"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
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."
- Francis Herreshoff
“I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”
- Ricky Skaggs
"Sometimes
we are lucky enough to know our lives have been changed, to discard the old and
embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me…
on that summer’s day when my eyes were opened to the sea."
- Jacques Yves-Cousteau
"Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore."
- Sterling Hayden
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
- Sir Francis Chichester
"There
never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland."
- Herman Melville
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it.
But we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
-Brooks Atkinson
"No
literature is richer than that of the sea. no story is more enthralling,
no
tradition is more secure."
- Felix Riesenberg
"Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship."
- Henry Van Dyke
"I start from the premise that no object created by man
is as satisfying to his body and soul as a proper sailing yacht."
- Arthur Beiser
"At sea, I
learned how little a person needs, not how much."
- Robin Lee Graham
"I can't change the direction of the wind,
but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
"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
"Wind is to
us what money is to life on shore."
-Sterling Hayden
Nautical quotes
"The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator."
- Edmund Gibbon
"Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore,
you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea."
- Charles Cook
"Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor;
the sea worms its way in and finds the problems."
- Francis Stokes
"There are three sorts of people;
those who are alive,
those who are dead,
and those who are at sea."
- Anacharsis
"I must go down to the seas again,
to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
and the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
and a gray mist on the sea's face,
and a gray dawn breaking."
- John Masefield
"Men in a
ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down."
-John Masefield
Sailor quotes
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favorable."
- Seneca
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore! Dream! Discover!"
- Mark Twain
"Until you
have the courage to lose sight of the shore,
you will not know the terror of
being forever lost at sea."
- Charles Cook
"It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails,
that's what a ship needs, but what a ship is... is freedom."
- Capt. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made,
for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid."
- Robert N. Rose
"Only
two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground.
One never left port and the
other was an atrocious liar."
-
Don Bamford
Maritime quotes
"It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind
can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living."
- Ernest K. Gann
"She had a voice of silver and lips of coral red.
She climbed the dolphin-striker and kissed the figure-head."
- Crosbie Garstin
"They that go down to the sea in ships; and occupy their business in great waters;
these men see the works of the Lord; and His wonders in the deep"
- Book of Common Prayer
"A small craft in an ocean is, or
should be, a benevolent dictatorship."
-Tristan
Seafarer quotes
"The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails."
-William Arthur Ward
"Greatness is not where we stand, but
in what direction we are moving.
We must sail, sometimes with the wind,
sometimes against it, but sail we must,
and not drift nor lie at anchor."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A ship is always referred to as
“she” because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder."
- Chester Nimitz
"To young men contemplating a
voyage, I would say GO."
- Joshua Slocum
Seamen quotes
"To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness.
Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that.
That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives."
- Carleton Mitchell
"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
"The night
comes stealing o’er me,
and clouds are on the sea;
while the wavelets rustle before me
with a mystical melody."
- Heinrich
Heine
"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
"A tourist
remains an outsider throughout his visit;
but a sailor is part of the local
scene from the moment he arrives."
- Anne Davison
"I was
born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied
it,
neglecting all else."
- Joshua Slocum
"The
desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content
thenceforward with a
single anchorage.
The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth,
unwilling
yet to accept the idea of a final resting place."
- Arthur Ransome
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