George Dewey Quotes

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

There are no signposts in the sea.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I have been a lover of the sea ever since I can remember.