Lewis Carroll Quotes

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

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.

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.

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

I loved being at sea: the sights, the sounds, the food, the sunshine, the people, and the work.

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.