Robin Lee Graham
Sailor, Author
"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."
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Nautical
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Vito Dumas
Sailor
"It's out there at sea that you are really yourself."
Hugo Vihlen
Author
"I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"To reach a port we must set sail"
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life."
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"The ocean is an object of no small terror."
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"For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so."
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"Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer."
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"Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom."
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