Hariposter
01.05.2021 8:27:39
“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”
― Robin Lee Graham
See full version: Sail Through These 44 Famous Quotes About Sea and Sailing
“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”
― Robin Lee Graham
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint Exupery
“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”
― Francis Stokes here
Ever since its inception, sailing has been linked to a sense of freedom and drive for adventure. For many centuries,sailors were considered to be bold and courageous men willing to risk their lives for fortune and honor.
They went on a hopeful trading adventures to Asia or the Caribbean and they went to explore uncharted areas hoping to find new land.
At the same time,many great men and women have fallen in love with sailing over the years,giving birth to a practically endless series of inspirational quotes. here
Example Sentence: "Gregory is driving me up the pole with his constant demands that I buy him that new album." here
Meaning: The way one looks or conducts themselves (usually negative). more
With my false heart and flattering tongue
Example Sentence: "There was a time we could always rely on the bus' timetable, but nowadays, it has gone completely by the board."
Example Sentence: "If you don't mind, I will give that boat ride a miss. Sorry, but I'm afraid I am something of a landlubber." more
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.
“Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.