Quotes About Ships

By morning an immense fleet of five thousand ships would stand off the invasion beaches of Normandy.

Last night was remarkably clear. I looked up at the sky to find the Argo. I'm terrible at constellations. I can never make out any of them except for Orion and his belt. But the longer I stared, the more the sky seemed like an ocean, and then I saw an entire fleet of ships made of stars. A flotilla was anchored at the moon, while others were casting off. I imagined we were on one of those ships, sailing on moonlight.

Sometimes my love is melancholy and I hold her head in my hands. Sometimes I recall our hair grows after death. Then, I must grab handfuls of her hair, and, I tell you, there are apples, walnuts, ships sailing, ships docking, and men taking off their boots, their hearts breaking, not knowing which they love more, the water, or their women's hair, sprouting from the head, rushing toward the feet.

A quiet smile played around his lips, As the eddies and dimples of the tide Play round the bows of ships.

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

Yes," he said. "But what is the character of the regime? And what are the mistakes which we were saying it contains?" "First," I said, "the very thing that defines the regime is one. Reflect: if a man were to choose pilots of ships in that way—on the basis of property assessments—and wouldn't entrust one to a poor man, even if he were a more skilled pilot—" "They would make a poor sailing," he said.

Venerable training ships displayed their chequered hulls by the wooded shore, and whispered of the days of oak and hemp, when the tall three-decker, comely and majestic, with her soaring heights of canvas, like towers of ivory, had not yet given place to the mud-coloured saucepans that fly the white ensign now-a-days and devour the substance of the British taxpayer: when a sailor was a sailor and not a mere seafaring mechanic.

Ma già le navi stano scomparendo all'orizzonte e io rimasi qui, in questo nostro mondo pieno di responsabilità e di fuochi fatui.

The rise in trade led to expansionism, and any European power that could afford it would send off ships, hoping to find new territory that "no one" (i.e. no other European) had discovered yet. Controlling land overseas gave these Europeans access to resources that could be exploited, often at the cost of the local inhabitants.

Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings!

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.

Entery Ships The rule say that Pirate ships are faster then anything - except the Barbery vikings, when on the side of good can overtake even Pirates. Se also Boats and Galleys.

He would patch their ships and I would cast charms against biting flies and fevers and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

And their masts stood as tall as the trees they had been

The islands looked all the same to me--high cliffs bleached white, pebbled beaches that scratched the underside of our ships with their chalky fingernails.

people were once again becoming alarmed at the sight of viking sails.

The combination of fast-moving ships with sails may have been the crucial development

I thought nothing at all, but I felt an immense sadness, as when two parts of one's past existence, which have been anchored near to one, and upon which one has perhaps been basing idly from day to day an unacknowledged hope, remove themselves finally, with a joyous flapping of pennants, for unknown destinations, like a pair of ships. As

Somehow we didn't connect Germans with Mexicans. We went right back to our myths. One American was as good as twenty Germans. This being true, we had only to act in a stern manner to bring the Kaiser to heel. He wouldn't dare interfere with our trade—but he did. He wouldn't stick out his neck and sink our ships—and he did. It was stupid, but he did, and so there was nothing for it but to fight him.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.