(625 quotes found)
“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.”
Charles Simic
“Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.”
Bela Kiraly
“No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.”
Horatio Nelson
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.”
James Elroy Flecker
“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?”
Christopher Marlowe
“One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”
Walter Winchell
“Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.”
David N. Dinkins
“He wanted to be a passenger on anything that was going anywhere, but most of all on a ship.”
William Saroyan
“[It is] a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.”
Robert H. Bork
