Ships Quotes

What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.

The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.