Ships Quotes

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

May, Different, Same

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Silence, Night

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

Time, Said, Talk

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

Ship, Safe, Port

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr

Great, Between, Difference

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
Gilda Radner

Women, Woman, Rather

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
George W. Bush

Forward, Universe, Moon

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Two, Once, Lives

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Zora Neale Hurston

Wish, Distance, Board

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky

Place, Far, Ability

Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.
Joan Jett

Serious, Problems, Cars

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

Face, Thousand, Burnt

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad

Sea, Modern, Highway

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
Gary Oldman

Great, Best, Off

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore

Down, Sea, Heaven

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Corey Feldman

Great, Experience, Kids

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
Leon Panetta

Power, Free, Whole

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes

Men, War, Friends

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.
Robert Ballard

Time, Amazing, Down

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
Wendell Willkie

Life, Power, Lost

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo

Boring, Rather, Until

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

Others, Making, While

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Beverly Cleary

Movies, School, Used

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
Dan Aykroyd

Mother, Video, Huge

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer

War, Again, Three

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh

Strong, Place, Makes

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.
Frank Gaffney

High, Both, Necessary

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
Peter Berg

Different, Fighting, Challenge

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Malcolm Bradbury

Experience, Makes, Discovery

Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
Gary Coleman

Together, Tell, Star

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