Dinghies Quotes

• When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

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  David Crosby

  Santa Barbara   Years   Sea  

  FaceBook post by David Crosby from Jun 13, 2013

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• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

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  Stephen Crane

  Lying   Average   Sea  

  Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

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  James Salter

  Dream   Lying   Fall  

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.

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  Totaram Sanadhya

  Struggle   Challenges   Mind  

  "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.

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• A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.

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  Bill Cosby

  Father   Ships   Dinghies  

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