Harbors Quotes - Page 13

• Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

  Jane Smiley

  Past, Ignorant, Sin

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• Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

  George Will

  Summer, Blue, America

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• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  Taylor Swift

  Cute, Summer, Thinking

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• There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Light, Doors

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.

  John Steinbeck

  Father, Book, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.38, Penguin

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• I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

  Andy Rooney

  Docks, Bitterness, I've Learned

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• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Phones, Fishing

  2000 Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems, 'Forgetfulness'.

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Travel, Safe

  Katie Couric (2011). “The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives”, p.288, Random House

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• It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Boston, Tea

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Two, Soul, Crowds

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• At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Rocks, Paper, Might

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• The sun in on the harbor, love, And I wish I could remain, For I know it will be some long, long time, Before I see you again.

  L.A. Meyer

  Long, Wish, Sun

  L. A. Meyer (2010). “The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, on Her Way to Botany Bay”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Ghetto, Mainstream Society, Islands

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• Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, New York, Children

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• Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

  Brom

  Children, Men, Hatred

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• To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

  James Patterson

  Military, War, Eye

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.137, Random House

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• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  Dan Rather

  War, Years, America

  "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Wind, People

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• Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Intelligent, Fishing

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• You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

  Bette Davis

  Meaningful, Missing, Sailing

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• If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
  You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment.
  Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Cutting, Past

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• The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Museums, Holocaust

  "Newt Gingrich's Legacy As A Political Commentator: Smears, Falsehoods, And Inflammatory Rhetoric" by Fae Jencks and David Shere, www.mediamatters.org. March 2, 2011.

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• Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

  Terence Stamp

  Cities, San Francisco, Magic

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