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Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. (Quote by - Corey Feldman)

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Quote by - Grace Hopper)

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous. (Quote by - John Hewson)

The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? (Quote by - Christopher Marlowe)

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. (Quote by - Gary Oldman)

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)

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. (Quote by - William Whipple)

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. (Quote by - George William Norris)

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. (Quote by - George Herbert)

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. (Quote by - Aristophanes)

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. (Quote by - Stuart Symington)

Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on. (Quote by - Thomas Kibble Hervey)

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt. (Quote by - John Hawkins)

And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after. (Quote by - Gil Gerard)

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. (Quote by - Thomas Keneally)

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? Lord help 'em, how I pities them Unhappy folks on shore, now. (Quote by - Charles Dibdin)

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