Top 230 Ship Quotes

When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, ‘Hell yes, I’m going to captain this ship.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, you’re losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.’ That’s Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
Becky Lynch
All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It’s your career. It’s your life.
Garth Brooks
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody’s trained, but I’m the commander of the ship, and it’s up to me to decide.
Chris Hadfield
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it’s in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
Samuel J. Palmisano
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That’s the kind of thing that I love to do.
Vin Scully
With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine.
Christopher Miller
I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That’s just to try to control your emotions.
Shaun Livingston
We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.
Judy Holliday
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland
I don't see as much of a resilience any more. I look at

I don’t see as much of a resilience any more. I look at my kids sometimes and it’s so easy to jump from one ship to the next.
Scott Parker
Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack Obama
What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don’t give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
Orson Bean
I’m not the best cruise ship crooner. I’m not the best karaoke guy.
Neil Patrick Harris
The Jones Act is an important tool to maintain Northeast Florida’s domestic ship repair industry, which is so vital to our Navy and national security.
Ander Crenshaw
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
I would not want to be on a cruise ship. Some ferry crossings I’m not too thrilled about.
Jennifer Connelly
I don’t think any one ‘ship’ – like a Bughead or a Barchie or Varchie fans – should give up hope at any time because you never know.
Lili Reinhart
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
William Kidd
We are the first on the frontline to go into countries to liberate people in the name of freedom – that’s what we’ve claimed. And now, all of a sudden, they need our help and we turn them away. Yet the rest of Europe stands ready to help. Why are we the first to jump ship?
John Barnes
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
John James Audubon
Since the littoral combat ship plays a vital role, we want to make sure we’re buying the correct version.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.
Gino D’Acampo
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.
Fat Joe
Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
Bill Macy is the most incredible, humble, and hungry human being, and that is the captain of our ship. He is phenomenal. We still laugh together, and we still talk and text and check on each other.
Shanola Hampton
We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn’t and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.
Genevieve Gorder
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Joshua Slocum
I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I’m driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we’re leading these four children into unknown waters.
Stella McCartney
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis
With Facebook’s IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.
Glenn Kelman
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid
When we shipped ‘Borderlands 2,’ we didn’t ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We didn’t have any software built or strategy in place.
Randy Pitchford
My whole life, I wanted to be an actor. Perhaps the seed was planted when I saw Sigourney Weaver in ‘Alien’, wiping the floor with the men on the ship.
Jessica Chastain
Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that’s one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
Sarah Palin
A ship’s engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew’s magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
Tomas Transtromer
From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn’t fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.
David Shields
To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.
Josephus Daniels
My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him. The crew of his ship would dress me up in fancy dress and make me dance for them. I was a performing monkey!
Jim Sarbh
There’s a shot that I designed to try and illustrate the scale of the Death Star that’s sort of framed in close on the equatorial trench as Krennic’s ship is leaving. The camera’s pulling back, and you start with it framed so you can kind of see those docking bays that are in that trench.
John Knoll
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make s

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself – the right of property in man – lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.
Lysander Spooner
I remember standing in the crow’s nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.
Christopher Buckley
It’s time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.
Mike Pence
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
William Falconer
The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They’re just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn’t a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn’t Shambala.
Nolan North
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Daniel Libeskind
When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.
Christopher Koch
Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.
Richard V. Allen
If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton
It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
Gavin MacLeod
Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn’t get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship’s shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.
Prue Leith
It’s never going to be a smooth sailing ship, there’s going to be ups and downs and I think one of the most important things to understand is not to ride the highs too high and ride the lows too low – it is a marathon and if you can just try to steady the ship as you go.
Patty Mills
When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother’s newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The ‘unsinkable’ ship – but it had gone down so simple.
Henry Allingham
In my experience, ‘SNL’ has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas ‘MadTV’ – even in my 13 episodes there – had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
Taran Killam