Docks Quotes

Difference is the foundation of those buildings, the pilings beneath the docks, tangled in the roots of the trees. Half the place was built on it. The other half couldn't live without it. But to talk about it in public reveals you to be ill-mannered and vulgar. (Samuel R. Delany)
I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds. View quote
Graham Parker
Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights. View quote
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
Bugsby's reach is long as time, His reach is wide as wind is, He can pick you nettles in Greenwich Marsh And docks in the East Indies. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it. View quote
James Cameron (director)
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed. View quote
William Henry Maule
People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface. View quote
Randy Wayne White
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
And the boys on the docks needed John for sure When they came to this country he opened the door He said men I'll tell ya, They don't like our kind Though it starts with a fist, it must end with your mind. (Dropkick Murphys)