Ships Quotes - Page 30

• I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Believe, Different, Aliens

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• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

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• Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

  Jean M. Auel

  Journey, Space, Fiction

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• Because nitrous oxide [released by nitrate-fertilised soil] is 296 times stronger than CO₂ at global warming and methane [cow farts] is about 26 times as potent as CO₂, the combined greenhouse effect of our livestock worldwide is greater than the sum total of all the cars, trains, busses, trucks, ships, airplanes and jets.

  Thom Hartmann

  Airplane, Car, Environmental

  "Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink". Book by Thom Hartmann, p.22, July 23, 2009.

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• America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

  Michael Pollan

  America, Environmental, Sugar Cookies

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• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, People, Sailing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Average

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Evil, House, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

  Peter Drucker

  May, Able, Navigation

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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  Barney Ross

  Morning, Three, Graduates

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• They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Hospitality

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• Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Self, Triangles

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.14, Penguin

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

  Fritz Lang

  Giving, Directors, Captains

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

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Cost, May, Captains

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• If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

  Aristotle

  Art, Atheism, Woods

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• Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Sunshine, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.19, Penguin

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• If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

  Tom Robbins

  Iron, Two, Finding Yourself

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.103, Bantam

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

  Rodney Stark

  Christian, Religious, Technology

  Rodney Stark (2007). “The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success”, p.48, Random House

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

  Johnny Depp

  Sailing, Black, Nautical

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• Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

  Gregory Harrison

  Stars, War, Cigarette Smoke

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