As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.
A very scurvy fellow.
There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.
Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.
Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
When NYDJ called me and told me that Christie Brinkley was going to be on set with me I freaked out. And when I met Christie, she had a little freak out because she said that her daughter Sailor loved me so much.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.
To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.
I am a sailor.
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.
We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.
The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.
The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.
Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
