Port Quotes

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper)
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. View quote
Seneca
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. View quote
William Gibson
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. View quote
Bobby Scott
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. View quote
Henry Mayhew
We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo. View quote
Vito Fossella
I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine. (Tom Clancy)
Serialism is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.... View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state. View quote
Larry Hogan
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! View quote
Walter Scott
Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made. View quote
Horatio Nelson
People think cruises are for old folk, but they are amazing, as you get to see so many places, and you're never stuck as you're docked in a different port every day. View quote
Alan Titchmarsh
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port. View quote
Henrique Capriles Radonski
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system. (Allyson Schwartz)
There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it! View quote
Cliff Richard
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!' View quote
G.W. Bailey
The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. View quote
John Conyers
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. View quote
Julian Baggini
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