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Sailing Alone around the World QUOTES

Sailing Alone around the World QUOTES

1 " I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

2 " Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

3 " ...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

4 " I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was fair, at noon I weighed anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the Spray had been moored snugly all winter. The twelve-o’clock whistles were blowing just as the sloop shot ahead under full sail. A "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

5 " for what is a man in a storm like this? "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

6 " I grasped her gunwale and held on as she turned bottom up, for I suddenly remembered that I could not swim. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

7 " I suddenly remembered that I could not swim. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

8 " I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had passed the haunts of savages. Great piles of granite mountains of bleak and lifeless aspect were now astern ; "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

9 " It was the 13th of the month, and 13 is my lucky number "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

10 " They have great reason to love their country and to fear the white man's yoke, for once harnessed to the plow, their life would no longer be a poem. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World

11 " The officers who are over-sure, and "know it all like a book," are the ones, I have observed, who wreck the most ships and lose the most lives. "

― Joshua Slocum , Sailing Alone around the World