Quotes About Ship

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.

However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.

On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

Tory housing policy is the epitome of tinkering with the deckchairs while the ship is listing.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

of day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

Friendship is a great ship but not a titanic ship.....

MVP development is like launching a ship with a solid foundation.

He rode the surface of the water, not three feet above Rye, covering the entire canal with his blackness and bringing night. His giant stomach was pitted with the scars of dozens of wounds, and pieces of rusted and torn metal were imbedded and grown over in his thick skin. Algae was encrusted on him. Seaweed and tiny shells of millions of minute sea animals clung to him as if he were a ship. His body contained a whole other life.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

Every day I'm still looking for God and I'm still finding him everywhere, in the dust, in the flowerbeds. Certainly in the oceans, in the islands that lay in the distance continents of ice, countries of sand each with its own set of creatures and God, by whatever name. How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years still in my pocket. But it's late, for all of us, and in truth the only ship there is is the ship we are all on burning the world as we go.

How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years still in my pocket, but it's late for all of us. And in truth, the only ship there is, is the ship we are all on, burning the world as we go.

Jack felt a jolt. Then he heard a grinding sound. The ship was scraping against the mountain of ice.

The little dog scampered after them. They passed the round windows of different rooms on the ship. Jack looked through them as they went by.

Suddenly, the front of the ship dipped down into the sea. Deck chairs started to slide past Jack and Annie.

the master of this person of an excellent disposition. And is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness,and the mildness of his disipline... added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirious to engage him.

I like it," she lied. "You don't understand the Pulsating Norb. No one understands the Pulsating Norb." "I ship it." "Nobody ships the Pulsating Norb," Nate said.

The people on board the ship would believe that they had left Cherbourg yesterday, that where they were at the moment in the middle of the ocean was today and New York was several days ahead." "I see what you mean," the Duke said slowly. "For you and me high up in the sky, it would all be happening at the same moment.