Top Ship Quotes
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
Owen Feltham
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
Giotto di Bondone
A ship has a soul.
John Rhodes Sturdy
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley
All Ship Quotes
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
Jerry Bruckheimer 
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid 
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson 
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer 
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Saint Thomas Aquinas 
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson 
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It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.
Eva Marie Saint 
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