Boat Quotes - Page 4

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.

You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.

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

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost liftable with one hand, and quite tippy, and is being piloted by a 12-year-old, but it is the true feeling of having your life in someone else's hands, and it's very precarious.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.