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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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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does this boat go to Europe, France?
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really - there's more of a chance that I stay on the Titanic than - than I go on, you know, on a Donald Trump boat.
- Columbus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shaquille and I kind of joke we were the Christopher Columbus of social media. We're kind of out on a boat by ourselves going through these uncharted waters. But it's become more understood, embraced and accepted, and now it's pretty much expected by fans for athletes, leagues and teams to be there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020