Port Quotes - Page 11

• Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

  Candice S. Miller

  Lakes, Rivers, People

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• I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Captains, Ships

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• There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

  Cliff Richard

  Couple, Water, Hot

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• It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Safety, Giving, Advice

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• Our infrastructure of bridges, roads and ports has been given a D-level rating by many civil engineer societies. The government should shift some money from the Defense budget and hire companies to fix our infrastructure. As for non-construction workers, we need to do job retraining in those growing areas where more skilled workers will be needed.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Bridges, Construction Workers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

  Junipero Serra

  Yesterday, Thank God, San Diego

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• Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Trying

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• 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

  Fall, Army, Men

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• Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Sky, Serious

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• 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, Jr.

  Motivational, Lying, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

  Bobby Scott

  Issues, Years, Adequate

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• In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

  Jon Porter

  Airports, Light, Needs

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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Sea, Arriving

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• 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

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere.

  Henry Adams

  Army, Sea, President

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• The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

  Willie Morris

  Military, Army, Past

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• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Determination, Years, Administration

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Tunes

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• It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

  Henry Mayhew

  Heart, Fire, Coal

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• The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Appreciate, House

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• God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

  Charles Spurgeon

  Together, Ships, Speed

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• The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

  Agatha Christie

  Safe And Sound, Long, Safety

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• True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.28, Whitaker House

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• I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

  Mary Mattingly

  Needs, Useless, Speak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Religious, Stars

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