Sailor Quotes - Page 5

• Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

  Helge Ingstad

  Squares, Sea, Water

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• Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Strong, Moving Forward

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• My daughter," I said blankly. "I see. Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought it took a man, as well as a woman, to make a child. Is this infant's father to be a crab, or a seagull maybe? Or were you planning to shipwreck some likely sailor on my doorstep, so I can make convenient use of him?

  Juliet Marillier

  Daughter, Children, Father

  Juliet Marillier (2007). “Child of the Prophecy: Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.544, Macmillan

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• I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Mean, Moon, Evil

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• Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Beautiful, Suffering, Moments

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• He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

  Salman Rushdie

  Disease, Syphilis, Way

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• Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals, I thought. Chromium, bassal, malium, iodine . . . everything your body needs but probably can’t get from apples and bread and whatever you manage to scrounge up when I can’t find you. “The dreams of fish,” I said. “And sailor’s songs.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dream, Song, Apples

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• A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Marine, Knights

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• Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Care, Way

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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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• The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

  Og Mandino

  Wind, Port, Concentration

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.113, Bantam

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• The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

  Og Mandino

  Work, Wind, Support

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.113, Bantam

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• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Encouragement, Art, Science

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.46

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• Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.

  Jon Anderson

  Tattoo, Warrior, Artist

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Self Harm, Artist

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• A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

  Enoch Powell

  Humble, Media, Sea

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• As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Names, Navy

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• There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

  James Bryce

  Government, Water, Unity

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• 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

  Light, Sea, Glimpse

  Song: The Pearl

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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