Ports is the plural of port. It may refer to:
- Ports, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in France
- Ports (comarca), a comarca in the Land of Valencia
- Ports de Tortosa-Beseit, a mountain massif at the NE end of the Iberian System
- Ports Authority F.C., a Sierra Leonean professional football club
- Ports collection, part of the package management infrastructure of modern BSD-derived operating systems
- Ports 1961, a fashion brand
Famous quotes containing the word ports:
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“O polished perturbation! golden care!
That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)