Maritime Quotes

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

The gap between the demand for and the supply of global governance is greatest when it comes to the global commons, those spaces no nations control but on which we all rely for security and prosperity. The most important of these are the maritime, outer space, and cyberspace domains, which carry the flow of goods, data, capital, people, and ideas on which globalization rests. Ensuring free and unencumbered access to these realms is therefore a core interest not only of the United States but of most other nations as well.

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

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

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

Navies have been and always will be engines of power, employed in projects of ambition and war.

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out.

Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It's technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements - the wind, the water, the weather.

Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.