Ships Quotes

Ships Quote of the day

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

It's easy to grin when your ship comes in and you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.