Ships Quotes

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
- Night
- Alone
- Harbors
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg
- Book
- Mother
- Company

Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

Bob Burg
- Generosity
- Creates
- Ships
Every ship should have a cat.

Alan Villiers
- Should
- Cat
- Ships
There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.

W Mitchell
- Friendships
- Ships
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

Michael Moorcock
- Return
- Celebrate
- Late
My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

Ezra Pound
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.

Joseph C.Lincoln
- People
- Mother
- Father