Ships Quotes

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

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.

The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.