Moored Training Ship

Famous quotes containing the words moored, training and/or ship:

“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)

“It’s [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.”
—Erma Bombeck (20th century)

“But Nature is no sentimentalist,—does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)