Quotes About Mariners

I'm a Mariners fan! I'm from Seattle, so I'm all about the Mariners and the Seahawks.

In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the English had been among the pioneers of Atlantic exploration, but during the long reign of Henry VIII (Queen Elizabeth's father) merchants and mariners had turned away from distant horizons and focused instead on opportunities nearer to home, trading with Europe and countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Other

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Mariners are like to a stiffe necked horse, which taking the bridle betwixt his teeth, forceth his rider to what him list, mauger his will; so they having once concluded, and resolved, are with great difficultie brought to yeelde to the raynes of reason; and to color their negligence, they add cost, trouble, and delay.

Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shoreThan labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.

Come with me now and leave the land of Pelops, mighty sons of Zeus and Leda, and in kindness spread your light on us, Kastor and Polydeukes. You who wander above the long earth and over all the seas on swift horses, easily delivering mariners from pitiful death, fly to the masthead of our swift ship, and gazing over foremast and forstays, light a clear path through the midnight gloom for our black vessel.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

black ballistic vest, blue jeans, and a Seattle Mariners baseball cap. "Detective Crosswhite?" Tracy shook the woman's hand and noticed that it felt small and soft. "Just Tracy. You're Officer Pryor." "Katie. I really appreciate this. I'm sorry to take up

The only place I remember him complaining about was the Kingdome in Seattle, when the Mariners joined the American League in '77. But that was understandable. Everybody hated that place.

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, where they were wont to do: They raised their limbs like lifeless tools - We were a ghastly crew.

Unfortunately for Mariners, the total amount of wave energy and storm does not rise linearly with wind speed, but to its fourth power. The seas generated by a 40 knot wind aren't twice as violence as those from a 20 knot wind, they are seventeen times as violent. The ship's crew watching the anemometer climb even 10 knots could well be watching their death sentence.

Christians! It is your duty not only to be good, but to shine; and, of all the lights which you kindle on the face, Joy will reach farthest out to sea, where troubled mariners are seeking the shore.

Captain Cook was one of the first to utilize the breakthrough invention called the chronometer. Until then, mariners commonly sailed north or south until they reached the latitude on which their port of destination lay. Then they would sail directly east or west. Latitude sailing

Las estrellas eran otra vez favorables, y lo que un viejo culto no había podido lograr por su voluntad, un puñado de inocentes marineros lo hacía por accidente.

des nuages blancs, humides, qui prenaient des formes fantomatiques si lourdes, si froides, si menaçantes qu'il ne fallait pas un grand effort d'imagination pour penser que les esprits des marins morts en mer venaient toucher leurs frères en vie et plus d'un marin trembla en sentant l'envelopper des mains humides que semblait former le brouillard marin.

the island chain had achieved such a terrible reputation, thanks to its reefs and to the unearthly screams of the island's millions of cahows, that mariners were calling Bermuda the Isle of Devils.

As challenging as the islands were to mariners, a few Spanish and Portuguese and, later, English sailors did make their way to stand on one of Bermuda's beaches or to climb its rocks or investigate its many caves. None of these early visitors came to stay, though. Bermuda was just too difficult to reach, too dangerous to approach.

I do remember those days really well, when I was working at my uncle's office in Sydney. I never even thought about the future to be honest, it was all about getting work done and then my head was focused on the Mariners.

Ye mariners of England,That guard our native seas;Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,The battle and the breeze!

I have no interest at all in the success of the Seattle Mariners.

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up-blew; The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do; They raised their limbs like lifeless tools— We were a ghastly crew.

and accomplished mariners dared to venture into the Ocean Sea, as the Atlantic Ocean was then known.

especially for those born in ports and maritime areas. This sort is the most numerous among mariners