Sailor Quotes

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

~ Avi

It's when you smell the breeze, taste the salt and feel the waves beneath your feet that you truly know that you are alive.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

~ L.a. Meyer

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.

~ S.e. Hinton

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

~ Homer

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

~ Ruta Sepetys

You must be a light unto yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

They don't take the Bible as a general thing, sailors don't; though I will say that I never saw the man at sea who didn't give it the credit of being an uncommon good yarn.(Kentucky's Ghost)

~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy.NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS.I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes

~ Giorge Leedy

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Nothing matches a Sailor’s kiss coming back home where he belongs.

~ Sameh Elsayed

My woman has a wandering eye;Yarrow, thyme and thorn.She eyes the ocean and the skyWhile stitching sails, forlorn.I got a kiss, and then a tearAs she bade me go;But on the waves, my heart's in fear:My woman's in the know.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance.

~ Jack London

A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something

~ Bruce Crown

Endless seas, mean endless adventures.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.(Kentucky's Ghost)

~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

...it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would have been thought a mark of cowardice and of incapacity for self-control. A man was expected even to get drunk if necessary, and to keep his tongue and his temper no matter how much he drank. The strong character would only become more cautious and more silent under the influence of drink; the weak man would immediately show his weakness. I am told the curious fact that in the English army at the present day officers are expected to act very much after the teaching of the old Norse poet; a man is expected to be able on occasion to drink a considerable amount of wine or spirits without showing the effects of it, either in his conduct or in his speech. Drink thy share of mead; speak fair or not at all - that was the old text, and a very sensible one in its way.

~ Eoghan Odinsson

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

~ Herman Melville

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

~ Jimmy Webb

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

~ John Locke

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

~ Sterling Hayden