Harbour Quotes

• Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Support, Innocence

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• A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

  Susan Jeffers

  Safe, Ships, Fulfilling

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• Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Sacred, Voyages, Spirit

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• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  Barnabe Barnes

  Sweet

  Barnabe Barnes (1593). “Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes”

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• Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Safe, Sail

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• All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Islands, Youth

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

  George W. Bush

  September 11, Distinction, Terrorist

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.38, M.E. Sharpe

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  Pamela Stephenson

  School, Watches, Going Out

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• Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Daily Life, Significant, Subconscious

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• When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  William Halsey

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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• If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

  Dick Cheney

  Military, Believe, Thinking

  "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons", www.foxnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

  Joshua Slocum

  Patience, Philosophical, Eight

  Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Beautiful, Islands, Water

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• Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

  Jo Nesbo

  Museums, Water, House

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

  Asa Larsson

  Dog, Feelings, Littles

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• The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Children, Eye, Men

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.25, Penguin

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• Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Jealousy, Mother, War

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• Now suzanne takes you hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From salvation army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For shes touched your perfect body with her mind.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Children, Hero

  Leonard Cohen, “Suzanne”

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• My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

  John Dyer

  Beach, Home, Love Is

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• The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Law, News, Safe

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• December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Air Force, December

  Address to joint session of Congress asking for declaration of war on Japan, 8 Dec. 1941

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• The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Christian, Stars, Children

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• How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Inferiors, Mines

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.57, A&C Black

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