Port Quotes

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year‘s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it’s not in Australia, but it’s not too far.

Port investments entail a lot of money, and having a partner who can share the risk makes a lot of sense. Often, it makes sense to have a local partner.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they’ve sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It’s a really – the mentality is that – I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time.

I’m from the south side of Nigeria, a place called Port Harcourt City… No one ever makes it out of there. I wanted to put it on the map.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

I spent five years of my childhood in Port Elgin and came back to spend another five years of my young adulthood there as well, including the years in which I was first published.

Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It’s simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe’s interest.

‘MaerskKendal’ is a rarity with its British flag, the ‘LONDON’ home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn’t get there, that touches me a lot.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

We know that investing in clean energy, like offshore wind, is a job creator in Connecticut and represents a huge opportunity for our port communities.

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom‘s largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can’t sign ‘Joe Kennedy.’ So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I’ve been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there’s not really much that comes out of Jamaica that’s on a plate that I don’t like.

If I had intended for ‘Minecraft’ to end up on consoles, I wouldn’t have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup – reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro’s Cuba.

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go to the pier or whatever, there’s no avoiding them.

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

I grew up on Geto Boys and of course UGK, who put my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, on the map. I was about Goodie Mob and OutKast too.

Halloween isn’t the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter‘s tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Micky Adams took me in initially as youth coach and I’ll always be grateful to Port Vale giving me my first chance to manage.

Five years before ‘Port of Miami,’ I was to a point where I may have even felt like quitting… the style and the wordplay of my lyricism was more complex than what Miami was used to.

We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If you live in Port Arthur, Texas, and you don’t have any food to feed your family for dinner tonight, global warming is not the most important issue; getting a job and feeding your family is.

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World’s potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’

There are plans for a Wii port of ‘Gray Matter,’ and I hope it happens.

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked – and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room – my daughter! O my daughter!

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

Australia exports millions of tons of coal each year to Asian markets. These same countries are interested in Wyoming coal. I look forward to visiting and seeing a vibrant coal port to better understand the benefits and challenges associated with this method of export.

A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada‘s military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

You need doors to open, you need a chance – and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

I am Port Arthur. I’m the president of Port Arthur.

When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can’t change people.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

I’m like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars… yet we have – to date – funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That’s quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

On the First Coast, there’s a team of individuals working extremely hard for the future of JAXPORT. On the road ahead, I look forward to working with them to see that the Port is afforded every opportunity to grow and expand. The challenge is large, but we are all up for it.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.