World Sailing Speed

Famous quotes containing the words world, sailing and/or speed:

    “‘Where is the world?’ cries Young, at eighty. ‘Where
    The world in which a man was born?’”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “I saw three ships come sailing by,
    Come sailing by, come sailing by,
    I saw three ships come sailing by,
    On Christmas Day in the morning.”
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

    “There was such speed in her little body,
    And such lightness in her footfall,
    It is no wonder her brown study
    Astonishes us all.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)