- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother, sisters and I arrived on the shores of America when I was 8 years old, the boat on which we came, a freighter, passed the Statue of Liberty.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
While scuba diving off the British Virgin Islands about 25 years ago, our boat's anchor got stuck. I dived down to release it, but I got separated from the boat and was stranded as it sped away. I had to swim for an hour to the nearest island with all my scuba kit on before I was rescued.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2000, I got stuck in the sea off Cyprus after I fell off a boat. I was out there for over an hour. I am not a strong swimmer, but adrenaline kicked in, and I swam back.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
- Crew Members
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- Nov 07, 2020