World Sailing Speed

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

    “A temple, you know, was anciently “an open place without a roof,” whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Colonel went out sailing,
    He spoke with Turk and Jew
    With Christian and with Infidel
    For all tongues he knew.
    “O what’s a wifeless man?” said he
    And he came sailing home.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “No speed of wind or water rushing by
    But you have speed far greater.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)