Quotes of: Sailors Keyword

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Samuel Butler

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Walter Scott

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H. G. Wells

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Ernesto Bertarelli

for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honore de Balzac

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

The Dawning of Power

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Violet Bick: [being dragged into a squad car by police] That sailor's a liar!

It's a Wonderful Life

Carl Denham: [chasing after sailor] Hey, come back with those bombs, you s...

King Kong

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

Van Morrison

Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.

The Last Enchantment

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

True Dummy - a fable of existence

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

Jonathan Nolan

This is Sailor Supergirl,” George says. “She knows all about black holes.

My Life Next Door

Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

Leland Orser

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

Everyone in Denmark has at least two or three sailors in their family; sea travel is part of the DNA of our nation, and because of that, I'd always wanted to tell a story aboard a ship.

Tobias Lindholm

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Tullian Tchividjian