Top 328 Port Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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.
We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.
I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.
There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port--heaven,--
Friend, what years could us divide?
More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.
My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.
As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.
Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
Common sense is not really so common.
The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
I think the Port of Palm Beach has an opportunity to thrive, if they can figure out how to do it with community support.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
There are abundant opportunities for A.P. No other Indian state has such great opportunities to develop port-based industrial economies.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
I always have dogs with me, even on the road. We call them port-o-pups.
It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
The supply chain industry in our Commonwealth continues to gain momentum, in large part due to The Port of Virginia's unparalleled infrastructure.
Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day.
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.
I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.
For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.
... the fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.
Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.
What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
We know that investing in clean energy, like offshore wind, is a job creator in Connecticut and represents a huge opportunity for our port communities.
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!