Quotes About Boats

The sea being smooth,How many shallow bauble boats dare sailUpon her patient breast.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

Dudley Docker and the Stancomb Wills were cutters—heavy, square-sterned boats of solid oak.

They were 21 feet 9 inches long, with a 6-foot-2-inch beam, and they had three seats

they were primarily pulling boats, designed for rowing, not sailing.

I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

I was sitting with the girl of my dreams on a bench in the Boston Public Garden watching the swan boats circle the little lagoon.

There were dozens of boats and skiers on the water, the powerboats and jet skis buzzing like angry mutant wasps.

He came around with a red plastic gas can and got into one of the boats and filled its tank. "Watch out for those rat bastard ski boats," he said. "Damn rich kids come out here and run wild all over the goddamn lake. Swamp you sure as I shit peanuts." He was a charming old guy.

I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.

There is a bright full moon, and boats in the harbor are lit up and dancing in the inky water.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.

will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all

They are in the shapes of dragons and unicorns and stars and boats and horses and hares and toads. We light candles inside them and we swing them on sticks in the dark and the village is full of these wonderful pinwheels of light, the rushing of these bright shapes.

Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling

He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long, golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains. He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it. He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

Unlike the Marines, who are given macho monikers like "jarheads," the Coast Guard had long been denigrated in military circles as fey "puddle jumpers." But just as 9/11 brought a newfound respect to firemen, Katrina did the same for the reputation of the Coast Guard. At the peak of rescue operations they had 62 aircraft, 30 cutters, and 111 small boats stepping up in rescue and recovery operations. They did it all one person at a time.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

On the centre of the lake, cooled by the piercing current of the Rhône, lay the true centre of the Western World. Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.