Top 328 Port Quotes & Sayings

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

I happen to be a big believer in home ownership. I'm also a big believer that if someone wants to have a crack at the mining industry in Port Hedland, then they should be able to collect their... benefits in Port Hedland even though they are from Alice Springs. It should be mobile.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

To reach a port we must set sail

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

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

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

I don't mind cheese with a nice glass of port, but I prefer chocolate.

I'd like to see Alaska or cross the Atlantic. My father-in-law spent some years crewing luxury yachts from port to port for their owners. He says the starlit skies over the Atlantic are extraordinary because there is no light pollution. I like the thought of seeing those stars, G&T in hand.

My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

Happiness always returns to port . . .

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

He enters the port with a full sail.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

A good resolve will make any port.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We need to do a lot of restructuring of the existing ports, particularly Durban. The separation of oversight and regulation from operations in the port, the possibility of bringing in private investors, to put in new investment to build capacity in the port. So, the restructuring of the ports will take place like that.

There are plans for a Wii port of 'Gray Matter,' and I hope it happens.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats