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Boat Quotes
Quotes about boats, journeys, and letting go.
These quotes use the boat as both a literal vessel and a metaphor, from the wisdom of switching a chronically leaking boat rather than endlessly patching it to the sense of having missed the boat on something as a kid. A few come from people who simply enjoy Sailing less than others do.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.
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- Nov 07, 2020
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should get at this level of my career. And I always know the ugly ones are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
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- Nov 07, 2020