Quotes About Ships

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

I'm on page 12 of 80 of Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus: Waves were never the tide but ripples, spawned by moon-coloured ships of war.

The nation's patriotic juices were stirred and the new music halls chanted, 'We don't want to fight but by jingo if we do, / We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.' Such sentiments became known as jingoism.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

I think only one man in three is a warrior, and sometimes not even that many, but in our army, Uhtred, every man is a fighter. If you do not want to be a warrior you stay home in Denmark. You till the soil, herd sheep, fish the sea, but you do not take to the ships and become a fighter. But here in England? Every man is forced to the fight, yet only one in three or maybe only one in four has the belly for it. The rest are farmers who just want to run. We are wolves fighting sheep.

The crews of the Viking ships are Danish, Norse, Frisian, and Saxon.

We were three ships in a summer's dawn, and we were going to battle.

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

The wind whipped up and I listened for ship sails snapping in the harbor cross the road, a place I'd smelled on the breeze, but never seen. The sails would go off like whips cracking and all us would listen to see was it some slave getting flogged in a neighbor-yard or was it ships making ready to leave. You found out when the screams started up or not.

He could not be absolutely certain she would not get away-again. In the dark of night, haunted by such grim thoughts, Dragon found consolation. He had a fleet of ships at the ready. Before his willing Saxon bride could don boy's garb, run off a cliff, or plunge into a river, he would have her safely aboard and at sea. Damned if he wouldn't. He felt better after that and even dozed a little but was up and dressed before dawn's gray fingers peeled night away.

You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.

Le atrajeron con engaños, que el creyó, por su desdicha, y se acercó, satisfecho, con sus buques, a la orilla. ¡Malhaya el corazón noble que de los malos se fía!, que al poner el pie en la arena, le prendieron los realistas.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing,When no life moves in the empty passageways.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

In 1846, America had more than 650 whaling ships, roughly three times as many as all the rest of the world put together.

The intention of the French was to cruise about the Bay of Biscay looking for British ships to capture or, if they were unable to do that, to prevent the British from doing any thing which they appeared to want to do.

Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. (Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have often supposed, a very whimsical nation.)

This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life, murmured Niko. They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

half the buildings still needed their wiring and in the evening light these structures sprawled about like ships of brick that had run aground.