Port Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
Leadership Aim Would Highest He Were His Ship Forever Captain Keep Port Preserve
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Business Wind Favorable Know Does Sailing Which Port
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Great Lie World Sometimes Wind Sail Anchor Must Find Drift Direction Reach Great Thing Nor Heaven Where Against Moving Much Stand Port Thing
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sail Anchor Must Drift Reach Tie Port
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie Sometimes Wind Sail Anchor Must Drift Reach Against Port
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser
Life Death War Please Ease Does Greatly After Stormy Toil Seas Port Sleep
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher
Success Out Determines Voyage Coming Going Port
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. Gore Vidal
Berlin Wall Military President President Kennedy Liberated Berlin Visited About Reluctantly Castro He Cuba Said August Friend Huge Up Begin Wall Going Port Kennedy
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee. Michael Dirda
Christmas Time Spooky Winter Halloween Coffee Dinner Ghost Ghost Stories Ghosts Only Only Time Part Over Tales Were Often Stories After Victorian Season Port Britain
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. Soren Kierkegaard
Safe Advise Comfortably Port
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. Adelbert von Chamisso
Myself Me Together First Met Few Gaze Immediately Crowd Through Prosperous Voyage Got Came Effects Very Squeezing After Which Landing Port Nearest Inn Last Humblest
The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so. Alex Morrison
Army Long Past Military Area Over Major Major Role Forces Operations Years Canada Role Task Departure Being Naval Military Operations Port Units Played
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port. Alistair Horne
Though Independent Has-Been Colonial Thriving Since Still Been Barbados Capital Elements Port British
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
Simple Seen Important Accidents National System Impacts Devastating Economy Global Global Economy Know Also Important Role Firsthand How Role Represent Port Play Ports Philadelphia
On the First Coast, there's a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it. Ander Crenshaw
Future Opportunity Challenge First Every Extremely See Road Individuals Look Up Expand Afforded Them Working Hard Coast Team Forward Large Grow Port Every Opportunity
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port. Andrew Solomon
Life World Made Late Teenagers Kid Possibility Constant Attack Always Caught Escape Get American Sending Soviet Going Afraid Little Little Kid Vietnam Plans Even Port Nuclear Draft Imagined
Japan hosts more forward-deployed U.S. troops than any other country and serves as home port for our only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. In 2011, when a tsunami devastated Japan and created the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear facility, the United States stood shoulder-to-shoulder with our Japanese allies to respond and rebuild. Ben Rhodes
Home Country Rebuild Other Our Aircraft States Respond Carrier More Only Facility Troops Allies Devastated Hosts Disaster Than Any Stood Any Other Country Japan Japanese Created United Port United States Serve Nuclear
I'm from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City... No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map. Burna Boy
Side Out City No-One Put Makes South South Side Wanted Place Map Port Ever Nigeria
Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port. Buzz Aldrin
You Waiting Space Ocean Out Would Haul Drink Recovered Weeks Take Alongside Come Return Ship After Landing Require Navy Port
I quit comics in 1988 and trained as a bus driver. I used to drive those big Greyhound coaches out of New York Port Authority and down to Princeton, New Jersey. It was, hands down, the best job I ever had, and I profoundly regret having left it. I kept that job the entire time I was on staff at DC Comics in the '90s. Christopher Priest
Time Best Regret Job Drive Princeton Big Down Those Out Entire Entire Time Having Driver Had New New Jersey Comics Left Trained Authority Hands York Quit New York Staff Bus Bus Driver Coaches Used Port Ever Jersey Profoundly Kept
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people. Colson Whitehead
You Change People Old Down Corporate Magnificent Hose Towers Buildings Erect Authority Port
I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.' Dallas Roberts
Son First Before Think Airport Out Foot Never Named Him Houston Been Texas Up Arthur Get Just Wanted Grew Really Dad Port Ever Dallas Set
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. Dana Rohrabacher
Freedom Will Taxpayer Our System More Facilities Fee Container New Make Equitable Revenue Provide American Which Should American Taxpayer Manufacturers Port
House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time. Dennis Cardoza
Time Single Every Every Single Time Increase Our Security Tried Over House House Republicans Democrats Single Time Years Times Efforts Republicans Port Floor Port Security Four Defeated Funding Last
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. Derek Walcott
Me Citizen Before Pedestrian Athens City Echo Proportions Ideal Became How Been Cultural Walker Commercial May Human Where Spain Port
We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state. Doug Ducey
State Governor Commercial Establish Should Working Sea Coast Port
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