Sailor Quotes - Page 6

• In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Dresses, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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