Ship Quotes

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.