Seafaring Man Quotes & Sayings

There's a way of listening in the dark that's so intense for girls. You can feel the insides of your ears. — Elisabeth De Mariaffi

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world. — Jean Craighead George

I like to talk come fight night, that's how I do it, but I'm not a pushover. — Andre Ward

I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. - Gem — Stacey Jay

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers. — Mark Twain

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper. — Jamie Wyeth

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. — Hermann Hesse

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. — Brian Trubshaw

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach you destiny. Perhaps you could get a clearer idea of our destiny if we took time out to examine our ideas, and upgraded them if necessary. What things are most important to you? If you could do anything you wanted to be, what would you be? If you could achieve a single objective in life, what would it be? — Carl Schurz

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass. — Thomas Reid