(625 quotes found)
“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”
John Barth
“I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.Then, someone at my side says;"There, she is gone!""Gone where?"Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me, not in her.And just at the moment when someoneat my side says, "There, she is gone!"There are other eyes watching her coming,and other voices ready to take up the gladshout;"Here she comes!"And that is dying.”
Henry Van Dyke
“And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.”
Bible
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep”
“The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.”
Peter S. Beagle
“Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.”
Thomas Moore
“A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.”
Admiral Grace Hopper
“It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger's nose till he is clear of Asia again”
Rudyard Kipling
“Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”
“And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.”
