A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.
Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.
Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.
Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.
America has a long and proud history of providing safe harbor for refugees. We must continue to do so, but in a way that keeps America safe.
My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.
In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.
On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub.
Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.
The United States is a safe harbor.
Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...