Life at Sea Quotes

My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

I loved being at sea: the sights, the sounds, the food, the sunshine, the people, and the work.

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

If you've ever been in a bar with a bunch of old sailors and see a guy that has an eagle tattooed across his chest, that guy has seen some stuff.