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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife's an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, 'We have the boat, do as you wish.' I'll let her run the show.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?
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- Nov 07, 2020