Ship Quotes

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

~ Thomas Reid

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

~ Billy Campbell

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

~ Niels Arden Oplev

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

~ Samuel Johnson

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

~ John Calvin

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

~ Faye Wattleton

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

~ Benjamin Franklin

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

~ Aaron Ciechanover

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

~ Robert Bork

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

~ Henry Petroski

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

~ Omar N. Bradley

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

~ Glen Hansard

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

~ Yehuda Berg