Quotes on Sailing Ships

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

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

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.