Port Quotes

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

He enters the port with a full sail.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Happiness always returns to port . . .

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

A good resolve will make any port.

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.

The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.

People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.