Quotes about Sailors

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt
The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best — Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many wom — Neil Gaiman
He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of — Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
And now you're off to Port Caynn. Watch them sailor lads. They'll have your skirts up and a babe in your belly afore you — Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make — lauren klarfeld
You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest... — Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, bl — Herman Melville
They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn' — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
Springtime blooms the starry treeBearing fruit the mariners see.High by night and low by dawnThe silver apple guides us — F.T. McKinstry, The Gray Isles
Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even — Tony Williams, The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny
O Sailor!It’s the way I want to beIt’s beyond the pale for meIt’s what being unknown is all aboutIt’s the path I choose — Tapan Ghosh, Faceless The Only Way Out
If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he — Jack London, The Sea Wolf
There are no whores in Scaithe’s Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many wom — Neil Gaiman, Stardust
The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. — Joseph Conrad
We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers. — Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. — Horatio Nelson
Strength lies not in defence but in attack. — Marquis de Acerba