Quotes about Sail

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A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds — Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. — Bill Cosby
I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love. — Anthony T. Hincks
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now o — L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack
Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled wit — Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, — Robert M. Pirsig
Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you ne — Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both. — Nabil N. Jamal
And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?""The Foresail?""Very good, Mr. Wh — L.A. Meyer
Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for you?" "Sell me your — Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the — John F. Kennedy
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the t — Franklin D. Roosevelt
She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms! — Avijeet Das
What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more — Saim .A. Cheeda
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So thr — H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette — Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769
There have been times on this trip I’ve been convinced that GPS was wrong. — Chris Robb, Voyages with Kipper: and other Sailing Reminiscences