Top Sailor Quotes

I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.

You must be a light unto yourself.

Sailor Definition

(n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the...

Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs

And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

Endless seas, mean endless adventures.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradl...

A sailor's love for the sea is only matched by his mistress's salty kiss.

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose...

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

The wind that blows the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.

Says O'Sullivan to me, Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh? Certainly, says I; what can I do for you? Sell me your sea- boots, Mr. Fay, says O'Sullivan, polite as can be. But what will you be wantin' of...

Only you could have won me away from the sea. I came back from the ends of the earth for you.

He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere els...

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.