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Quotes About Port

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.
~ Kirstjen Nielsen
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
~ Ruben Blades
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
~ Henrique Capriles Radonski
A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.
~ Sylvie Guillem
Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.
~ Naveen Patnaik
I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.
~ Ruben Blades
Welcome, New Year, said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away. I wish you all the best years of your lives, mates. I reckon taht whatever the New Year brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us -and somehow or other we'll all make port in a good harbour.
~ L. M. Montgomery
California is the end of an arc constructed over the dead who resisted it: all dreams, especially the terrible promise of an American one, seek a port, a jumping-off place, palms, ocean, a final stop. Do you fall back in earnest on the pop adage that anything is possible here? Come, and disappear.
~ Andrew Durbin
Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I worked at the Northlight Theater in Skokie, and the Mercury Theater on South Port. I actually did a show there for three years, called 'Over the Tavern.'
~ Nico Tortorella
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
CASABLANCA provided Vichy with its best anchorage south of Toulon, and the French navy had chosen to defend the Moroccan port with valor worthy of a better cause.
~ Rick Atkinson
Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper Here lies Johnie Pigeon; What was his religion? Whae'er desires to ken, To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, For here Johnie Pigeon had nane! Strong ale was ablution, Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory.
~ Robert Burns
If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.
~ Adrian McKinty
Via?a era vaporul din port, care nu mergea spre infinit...
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I had rather water in a port than from some uncertain creek or river on the Malay coast where for all you know there is a village hidden a mile upriver and crapping in it.
~ Andrew Wareham
They're coming back!" she yelled. Marcia jumped, lost the Projection completely and, far away at the Port, and her crew disappeared forever, much to the shock of a lone fisherman on the harbor wall.
~ Angie Sage
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
~ Horatio Nelson
Pinhao, spectacularly haltered by terraced vineyards, produces most of the world's finest ports.
~ Carol Drinkwater
I mercanti cinesi, olandesi e inglesi avevano cercato ripetutamente di rompere quell'assurdo isolamento, ma avevano ottenuto soltanto di metter su una fragile e pericolosa rete di contrabbando. Ci avevano guadagnato pochi soldi, molti guai e alcune leggende, buone da vendere nei porti, la sera.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city.
~ Alexandre Dumas
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
~ Vito Fossella
In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'll be glad to get out on the water again, and gladder still to see Divvytown. I knew it was my home port that first time I saw it.' 'The pirate town? Sa save us all. Does someone wait for you, dearie?' Ophelia asked. Jek laughed aloud. 'They all wait for me. They just don't know it yet.
~ Robin Hobb