Maritime Lifestyle Quotes

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

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

I used to live on a barge - it is incredibly good to write near water. There is an ever-changing landscape, so you never get bored.

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

I live on an old tugboat but feel that having a submarine would be the next level.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.