64 Ships Quotes for You to Enjoy

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented. Stacy Schiff

Rights Women Power Enjoy Medicine Ran Would Unprecedented Husbands More Lawsuits Divorce Supported Practiced Years Ships Than Owned Egypt After Again Them Enjoyed

You can never tell what ships are worth. Stavros Niarchos

You Worth Tell Never Ships

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil. Stephen Kinzer

World Car Power Living Ran Projected Factories Throughout Cheap Trucks Supported Powered Over Were Iran Iranian Ships Oil Which Buses Fueled Standard Navy Royal Britain British

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. Sylvia Earle

Life Attitude Big Ocean Garbage Sewage Entire Could Had Reached Ultimate Ships End Child Did Want Anything Place Use Sea Useful Dispose Aware Nuclear Wastes Resilient

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships? W. D. Richter

Space Flower Metal Always Ships Expect Why Why Not

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. Wendell Willkie

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. Wilbur Ross

Strange Big Kind Individual Because Ships Very Commodities Commodity Units

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force. William Whipple

Experience Enemies Think Our Furnishing States Distressing More Toward Force Trade Continental Ships Than Same Done Shown

In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa. Kwasi Kwarteng

Ghana Angola Mention Bound Document West Cameroon Ships Africa Lists Being Staple Earliest Nigeria Slave Loaded Portuguese

For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War. Joe Sestak

I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain. Joe Sestak

Ships Quotes

No more ships quotes