A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Sterling Hayden

A ship has a soul.
John Rhodes Sturdy

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

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz

A small leak can sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
Eileen Caddy

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman Melville

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Nguyen Cao Ky

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

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Daniel Libeskind

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
Davy Jones

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel

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

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!
Jon Heder

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
Anne McCaffrey