Pliny the Elder Quotes

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

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

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

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

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

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

He enters the port with a full sail.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized and requested, to cause a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States, in which shall be designated the islands and shoals, with the roads or places of anchorage, within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.