Sailor Quotes

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

I have the mouth of a sailor.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.