I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
I love watching the fishermen step off their boats and lay out their catch - typically sardines, monkfish and everything you'd find in bouillabaisse.
I was always good at fixing things growing up. I wanted to work on boats. That was what my dad did.
She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.
Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
The inability to hold cash and the pressure to be fully invested at all times meant that when the plug was pulled out of the tub, all boats dropped as the water rushed down the drain.
I do my own stunts; that's something I'm very passionate about. I spent a lot of time on boats as a kid, so it's just nice to be able to put that into use in the job that I do.
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.
The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.
Planes and Trains and Boats and Busses Characteristically Evolve a common attitude of blue Unless you have a suitcase and a ticket and a passport And the cargo that they're carrying is you.
I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.
I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it.
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It's amazing for outfit of the day shots.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.
I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.
Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.
My worst buy has always been cars and boats. I used to own two Ferraris, but as much as they're beautiful, they're a waste of money.
I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.
A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.
With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats in the Highlands. Then 'Trainspotting' made it fashionable.
I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
The boats came, and they were only taking a few people at a time, so what happened was they took a boat and said, 'We can have two more children', so the boys went.
Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.
Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.
One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.
I don't travel by airplane. I mean that because when my wife, my kids and I travel on trains or boats, we meet a lot of people and we talk to them.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.
Appearance is everything. I find that a view is secondary. Even in those apartments on the East River, it's dull, looking out at those little boats.
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
It's a lot harder to rack up a big bill on clothes and shoes than on boats and cars.
The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.
Try backpacking in Indonesia and taking boats between the islands, or catching a bus from Marrakech to Essaouira in the middle of the night, with an eight-foot board. It's just impossible!
I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.
If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.
I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Because I had worked the river boats some summers, pushing as far as New Orleans, I joined the Merchant Marine.
Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
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