Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.

I have been a lover of the sea ever since I can remember.

I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.