“This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”
Source: The Pearl
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American writer 1902–1968Related quotes
“Every boat is copied from another boat…”
Propos d’un Normand (1908); as quoted in "Natural selection and cultural rates of change" by D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:3416–3420
Context: Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.
“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”
Source: The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
“Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?”
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
The children's joke Pete and Repeat.
Ghost Hunters
“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
Source: Christian Science
“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
