Famous quotes containing the words small and/or boat:
“You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are—I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
“The utmost familiarity with dead streams, or with the ocean, would not prepare a man for this peculiar navigation; and the most skillful boatman anywhere else would here be obliged to take out his boat and carry round a hundred times, still with great risk, as well as delay, where the practiced batteau-man poles up with comparative ease and safety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)