Robin Lee Graham
Sailor, Author
"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."
Sailing quotes
Sailing
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
Ovid
Poet
"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."
David Lee Roth
Musician
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."
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"The ocean has always been a salve to my soul."
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"People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!"
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"It's out there at sea that you are really yourself."
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"I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls."
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"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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"You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor."
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"When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds."
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"I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier."
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"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
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"The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor."
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"Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love"
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"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
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"Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream"
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"To reach a port we must set sail"
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"Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass."
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"The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life."
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"Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
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"I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship."
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"The ocean is an object of no small terror."
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"The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!"
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