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“A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.”

Years Running Hours Morning New York Years Ago Miles Boat Breakfast Engines Passengers Mississippi Philadelphia Carriages Baltimore Dine

Author:Oliver Evans

“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.”

Feels Years Made Cities Changed Years Ago Boat Cleveland Belle Bad Thoughts Made For Each Other

Book:Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

People Years Firsts Stories America Four Changed Hundred Years Ago Originals Boat Immigrants Turkeys Pilgrim

Author:Andrew Lam

“'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.”

Years Film Three Interesting Circumstances Shots Red Years Ago Boat Remarkable Three Years Very Interesting Knots Antarctica

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

World Inspirational Years Mind Littles Long Funny Interest Particular Years Ago Boat Shore Sail Sailing Purses No Money Nautical Sailing And The Sea Boats And Sailing

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.”

People Years Kind Wonderful Years Ago Died Towns Revenge Accidents Boat Curse Sleepy Idyllic

Author:Selma Blair