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Sailor Quotes - Page 3

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.232, Grove Press

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

John Adams (1809). “Correspondence of the Late President Adams”, p.173

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.68, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.436, Collector's Library

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

"Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador's Story". Book by John E. Dolibois, p. 183, 2001.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)