Quotes About Voyage

Where one waits for that peremptory, half-melancholy, half-majestic sound of a ship blowing as she silently glides out black in the night, almost through the pub yard, from the docks basin on her voyage.

I move and, circling, seek myself, O center, O center, road, voyagers of the world, of the future existing beyond the seas, in my pulse-beat.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

heard the creaking of the ship's timbers and wondered

Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds, Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of hell and looked a while, Pondering his voyage . . .

Tomorrow once again we sail the Ocean Sea.

Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears, as they may be crossing the Scioto and Sandusky.

Morgan was no doubt pleased that Millet was sailing on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. He had planned to be on board himself before changing his plans in favor of a stay at a spa at Aix-les-Bains with his mistress.

This book is a story of encounters between Reef peoples and places, ideas, and environments, over more than two centuries, beginning with James Cook's bewildered voyage through a coral maze and ending with the searing mission of reef scientist John "Charlie" Veron to goad us to act over the impending death of the Reef.

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.

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I grew up in motion. I have never lived outside the Southwest, yet in my childhood I rarely had the same home or lived in the same state for more than a year or two at a time. Well before adulthood I believed that all was right with the world only when I was standing at the brink of every possibility, a voyage not yet taken unraveling before me.

Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like? —Comic. Terror is forgotten. Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity. Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvation Is one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year.

12018Back then, the journey was the thing

The journey is the treasure.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

A whaleman was not paid a wage but a "lay," which was a share of the outcome of the voyage, calculated after the ship had arrived home. First, the oil was gauged, and then it was valued, according to the prevailing market. After that, the costs of the voyage, plus the owners' half of the profits, were subtracted from the gross amount, and the remainder shared out according to the whalemen's lays.

He who leaves and then returns will have a good trip.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

My girlfriend was Archeanassa from Kolophon and her wrinkles are scars of a sour love. Pain, horror. On her first voyage she loved a graceful young man, and passed through fire.

peering in the starboard window of the cargo

the medical way for a two-month voyage.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase," he said as he double-locked their door, "is a tourist, not a traveler.