Top 304 Boats Quotes & Sayings

The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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.

I've always loved the water and boats so Whitsundays is magnificent.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or a car or a shoe or a comment-it's the cut of your sail as you cross this crazy, uncharted sea. Far ahead, legions of boats have already made the crossing-some grander, some more sleek-and still newer boats are always coming up behind you. Style is the manner in which you navigate your one remarkable voyage.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

My wife is immature. Whenever I take a bath, she sinks my boats.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

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.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

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.

Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

A rising tide lifts most boats. But some boats require patching.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

My dad has a few boats, but I'm not into fishing.

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Little boats should keep near shore

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.

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

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible.

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

The media establishment senses that the boats are coming and it has taken it upon itself to stand on those beaches and do everything it can to shoot the soldiers on the boats. They know the beaches will be taken.

'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the corner.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?

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

Time is a river, and books are boats.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

In fact, there are only two things in this world that I'm crazy about, boats arid women.

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.

Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

When I first started on 'Dragons' Den,' I was under pressure to buy flashy cars and boats but I resisted.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.