(625 quotes found)
“Tip to out-of-town visitors: If you buy something here in New York and want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address”
David Letterman
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board”
Zora Neale Hurston
“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.”
George W. Bush
“Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking”
Eric Hoffer
“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship above, "Come up at once. We are sinking."”
Robert Cooper
“May the ships at sea never be bottoms up”
Anonymous Toast
“This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”
William Wordsworth
