Memorable World Is My Ship Quotes

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"The world is my country, science my religion."
Christiaan Huygens
"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore."
Ferdinand Magellan
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
John Masefield
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."
Brooks Atkinson
"The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself."
John Rousmaniere
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
Grace Hopper
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came."
John F. Kennedy
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"The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish."
Jacques Yves Cousteau
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Walter Scott
"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourselves we find in the sea."
e.e. cummings
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Herman Melville
"To desire nothing beyond what is, and not to call for any Revolution, is surely a sign you have the true temper of a Sailor."
Walt Whitman
"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
Sir Francis Chichester
"It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
Sir Francis Drake
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."
Isak Dinesen
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas."
Emily Bronte
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too"
Vincent van Gogh
"No one can discover the world for somebody else."
Paul Strand
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
Saint Augustine
"I have sea fever."
John Masefield
"Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, my staff of faith to walk upon, my scrip of joy, immortal diet, my bottle of salvation, my gown of glory , hope's true gage; and thus I'll take my pilgrimage."
Walter Raleigh
"To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go."
Joshua Slocum

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