Port Quotes

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wind, Sailing, Favorable

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success, Coming, Voyage

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reach, Anchor, Sail

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Soren Kierkegaard

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lie, Sometimes, Against

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas

Keep, Forever, Aim

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

Ship, Safe, Ships

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

Him, Wind, Voyage

He enters the port with a full sail.
Virgil

Full, Sail, Enters

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Friedrich Schiller

Give, Advice, Easy

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin

Good, Thought, Treat

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
Rosa Luxemburg

Life, Through, Country

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams

American, Sea, President

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.
Mindy Kaling

Thinking, Everything, Dollars

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson

Truth, Night, Made

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

Woman, Ship, Captain

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
Horatio Nelson

Made, Place, Break

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!
Cliff Richard

Done, Easy, Times

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson

Dead, Color, Sky

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.
Bobby Scott

Alone, Live, Year

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.
Solomon Ortiz

Between, Actually, Security

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.
Solomon Ortiz

Last, Less, Security

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Solomon Ortiz

Fear, Understand, Security

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
Rick Danko

Him, Night, Play

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.
Ruben Blades

Music, Mean, Another

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

Impossible, Knows, False

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
John Conyers

Today, Him, Security

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.
Dana Rohrabacher

Freedom, American, System

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Henry Mayhew

Good, Fire, Enough

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.
Dave Reichert

Greatest, Single, Control

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