Boat Quotes: Inspiring Nautical Sayings and Wisdom

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now"

"On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object"

George Grey, Leader

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further"

Emmett Kelly, Entertainer

"Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat"

Mark Twain, Author

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat"

Mark Twain, Author

"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot"

Helena Christensen, Model

"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car"

John Moody, Businessman

"If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island"

Kenneth Grahame, Novelist

"From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not"

James Taylor, Musician

"My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded"

Ted Lindsay, Athlete

"I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second"

Nina Simone, Musician

"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free"

Jane Birkin, Actress

"Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out"

James D'arcy, Actor

"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat"

Pierre Trudeau, Statesman

"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat"

June Jordan, Writer

"I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

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