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Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock.
(By the way, if you are going to read this story at all, and if you don't know already, you had better get it into your head that the left of a ship when you are looking ahead, is port, and the right is starboard.) All
Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man
I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum
Every ship needs a port because unlike ships waves never get tired!
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Pirate Frank. Walks the Plank.
I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat. And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.
Remember "the unmoored boat floats about.
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.
Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!
When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port.
I felt infuriatingly left out
a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.
From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.
The most important thing is sailing toward shore.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists!
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
They fuck hard and fast at too many gees, his docking hectocotylus locked tight inside her launch adapter.
One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.
O would, beloved, that you lay
Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one.
I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
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.
You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port?
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.
Oh let the lemons lie there,
upended yellow boats, their empty inboards
so clean and white, let them always ferry
such distractions from ourselves.
If your ship does not come in, swim out to it!
A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential
Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.
After a long time i saw my self in mirror and i find-out a berthing machine
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.
A good resolve will make any port.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.
For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!
A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!
In the middle column, the colony ships she and her fleet had taken: the Bedyadat Jadida, out of Luna. The John Galt and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. The
Which direction?" Robard asked.
"Robard," I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean.
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it.
Go out looking for the end of a rainbow and there might only be a Port-A-Let.
You look good as a Pirate." Erin
"Ahoy, matey," he said, laying her back against the grass. "Me cap'n's ship needs a port." V' Aidan
"Me cap'n's port needs a ship." Erin
My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
I feel like a little tug in a great storm. But I'm fastened to a great ship on ahead. It's going into port and can't lose it's way.
Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboard rail, gazing over the bay.
Annabeth took his hand. "What are you going to do while we're gone?"
"Jump in the harbor," he said casually, like another kid might say, I'm going to get a snack.
triremes with a half deck for carrying full sail and more sailors
The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
Happiness always returns to port ...
The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Let go of the oars ... Everything you want is downstream.
Each of a hundred ships, built by the same men at the same yard to the same plans, will have her own special characteristics--most of them bad, really, but after her crew becomes accustomed to them they are spoken of affectionately, particularly in retrospect.
Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship.
the ship. When he slashed through the last one, he forgot to
What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.
All ships ... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor.
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
I stepped free of Isambard and shoved Michael in the chest. I caught him off guard. He tumbled to the dock, and rolled into the water with a splash.
"I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!" I screamed.
When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.
But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land.
(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)
We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
Ships have feelings.
Somewhere high overhead on the other side of the freighter, metal ground against metal making a sound like angry mechanical whales fucking.
She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.
All right boys, let's sail away! Show those bastards how airship pirates fly a ship!
Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
There is no safe port; there are only ports that we feel ourselves safe.
Jump or stay in the boat.
In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship.
s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers
Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferrypot Landing anymore.
~Sabrina Grimm
Remember that on October 1, 2015, the American Container Ship El Faro with 5 graduates of Maine Maritime Academy was lost at sea." Captain Hank Bracker
Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide
I would rather rudder
What are you staring at, sailor?'
His ice eyes did not flicker. 'My captain, ma'am.'
'Get back to work, Seton.'
He bowed.
when you lose your sails, row.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.
If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock. You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself - begin to have spiritual discernment.
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.