Sailor Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Rain, Ocean

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• It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Sea, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome “Annotated Three Men in a Boat with English Grammar Exercises: by Jerome K. Jerome (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  World, Disease, Pox

  "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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• Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them up and give them vim. That's just what artists lack!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Moving, Artist, Anchors

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• Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.

  Homer

  Clouds, Wind, White

  Homer (1818). “The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates”, p.342

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• How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Cowboy, Female, Odd

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.110, Penguin

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Soldier, Rifles

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• I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

  Augusto De Luca

  Art, Keys, Doors

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• 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

  Gratitude, Grateful, Ice

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand

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• 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

  Beautiful, Princess, Thinking

  "Constantinople". Book by Edmondo De Amicis, 1877.

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• I'm a sailor, not a politician.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Politician

  "Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador's Story". Book by John E. Dolibois, p. 183, 2001.

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• When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or hazardous occupations, and in climates pernicious to human life. Sailors and soldiers are prodigals. . . . War and pestilence have always waste and luxury, among the other evils that follow in their train.

  John Rae

  Country, War, Men

  John Rae (1834). “Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy: Exposing the Fallacies of the System of Free Trade, and of Some Other Doctrines Maintained in the "Wealth of Nations."”, p.123

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• The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Saws, Weakness, Sober

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• On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

  Ray Mabus

  Military, Navy, Ships

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• She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

  Harry Chapin

  Song, Eye, Men

  Song: She Sings Songs Without Words, 1974

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• For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Hands, Together, Ships

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Memories, War

  Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

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• We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Distance, Doors, Silence

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• I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

  Charles Darwin

  Hate, Men, Sailing

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.478, Broadview Press

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• 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

  Winning, Men, Sea

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.13

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• President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

  Ken Follett

  Blow, One Direction, Wind

  Ken Follett (2011). “Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin

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• The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Eggs, Ideas

  "The Light Fantastic". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sleep, Doors, Waiting

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Capes, Dangerous

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.40, Vintage

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• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  H. G. Wells

  Church, Hell, Ought

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