Quotes and Sayings about Boats
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats."
- Woody Allen
(Related: Home, Wife, Boats)
"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Boats)
"I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats."
- Ella R. Bloor
(Related: People, Boats, Faces)
"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: People, Boats, Countries, Rights, Human rights, Interest, states, United)
"Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Boats, First, Hunting, Will)
"I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock."
- Phil Donahue
(Related: Boats)
"I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats."
- John Dyer
(Related: Boats, Pleasure)
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
- David R. Ellis
(Related: Boats, Racing)
"I love the ocean. Boats, not so much."
- Jeff Goldblum
(Related: Love, Boats, Ocean)
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
- Kenneth Grahame
(Related: Boats, Nothing, Worth)
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
- William Christopher Handy
(Related: Boats)
"I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats."
- James Hetfield
(Related: Beer, Boats, Guitar)
"I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats."
- Antony Hewish
(Related: Love, Boats, Sea)
"It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats."
- John Hoeven
(Related: Education, Growth, Boats, Cooperation, Jobs)
"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: Leadership, Today, World)
"When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 miles per hour."
- Ben Kingsley
(Related: Boats)
"I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me."
- Emeril Lagasse
(Related: Work, Boats, Fish, Fishermen, Talk)
"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."
- Emeric Pressburger
(Related: Women, Children, Ships)
"Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes."
- Alan Rickman
(Related: Love, Boats, Nothing, Pleasure)
"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
- Martin Ryle
(Related: Boats)
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Boats, Fortune)
"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Heart, Beginning, Boats, End, Feeling, Nothing, Pain)
"There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part."
- Charles Spalding
(Related: Wisdom, Action, Football, Opinions, Talk, Tennis)
"To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired."
- Sam Worthington
(Related: People, Boats, Help, Sense, Tourists, Weekend)