As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

- Jimmy Webb

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

- Samuel Butler

The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

- Rose George

I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

- Nathan Outteridge

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

- Michael Foreman

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

- Michael Mullen

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

- Maria Mitchell

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.

- Mickey Drexler

I have the mouth of a sailor.

- Kristen Bell

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

- John Ratzenberger

I swear like a sailor.

- Anya Taylor-Joy

I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

- James Cagney

I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she's hilarious.

- Johnny Depp

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

- John Locke

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

- Honore de Balzac

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

- Frank Gehry

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

- Ernest Borgnine

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.

- Dorothy Atkinson

The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back.

- David Walliams