Quotes About Port

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Catholic and Italian boys whose fathers worked on the docks at the port

Funny sky,' he said, squinting up at the thick-bellied white clouds and the sun shining so hot on them but not breaking through. 'It feels as if there should be a storm,' I said 'but it was like this at haymaking and the weather never properly broke then.' 'If I was at sea I should run for a port,' Ralph said. He was looking towards the horizon where there was a yellow tinge to the sky over the top of the downs.

I sat down quietly in a corner with my glass of port, and kept quiet while Simon questioned Jamie once again about Charles Stuart's situation and prospects.

If a ship's coming in from a port known to have plague of some kind, the damned Hollanders make the sailors swim ashore naked.

the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journeys, and he came to know the port from which he set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home...

The supply chain industry in our Commonwealth continues to gain momentum, in large part due to The Port of Virginia's unparalleled infrastructure.

I found something called Lucas Papaw Ointment in Australia that I can use for anything - my lips, under my eyes, my hands.

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving it back to truck

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.

Micro fortunes were made every day at Port Shannon. And more were lost.

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

Um porto é um lugar perigoso para os jovens porque quase sempre são vítimas de um vírus fatal, o do amor".

But the Cadiz authorities were still difficult. The French were hated in the port.

It was followed in sequence by the fifty broadside guns on the Victory's port side,

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.