Shore Quotes - Page 12

• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Night, Names, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 46 (1845)

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• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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• And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Wind, Play

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• Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ocean, Son, Climbing

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• The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sky, Rivers, Broken

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2004). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

  Carl Jung

  Want, Might, Matter

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• Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dip, Quiet, Wave

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.292

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• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Ocean

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• There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Moving, Love Is, Years

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• Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

  Félix J. Palma

  Rivers, Born, Sweeping

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• There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Long, Broken

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• May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores - by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea's blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.

  James Bertolino

  Dream, Night, Love Is

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• Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,
  You may partake of any thing we say:
  We speak no treason, man; we say the King
  Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen
  Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;
  We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,
  A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;
  And that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Queens, Kings

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Stupid, Humorous

  Louis Farrakhan's speech at the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., www.cnn.com. October 17, 1995.

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• PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Sea, Departed

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

  William Alexander

  Mean, Journey, Volunteer

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• Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

  John Denham

  Gold, Guilt, Foam

  John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”

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• Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Sea, Perfect

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• Through the opened heart, the world comes rushing in, the way oceans fill the smallest hole along the shore. It is the quietest sort of miracle: by simply being who we are, the world will come to fill us, to cleanse us, to baptize us, again and again.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Heart, Rushing

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.111, Conari Press

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• When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Sight, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.253

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• For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Teacher, Stars

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost At Midnight”

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• One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.

  Mark Epstein

  Love, Opportunity, Ego

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.58, Penguin

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• I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

  Bob Balaban

  Lakes, My Family, Born

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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