Shore Quotes - Page 23

• Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Friendship, Goodbye, Peace

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

  Leonard Cohen

  Years, Sea, Drowning

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.48, Emblem Editions

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• Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Moving

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• When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

  Gail Carson Levine

  Teenager, Lying, Opposites

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

  Haruki Murakami

  Night, Thinking, Light

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• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

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• Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Ocean, Depth, Plunge

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

  Khalil

  Song, Heart, Sea

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• You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

  Susan Strasberg

  Ocean, Wave, Faster

  Susan Strasberg (1980). “Bittersweet”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Believe that a further shore
  is reachable from here.

  Seamus Heaney

  Believe, I Forgive You

  "Doubletake". Poem by Seamus Heaney, 1990.

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• To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

  Brian Tracy

  Sight, Willing, Continents

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 27, 2011

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• Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

  Jose Saramago

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.

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• This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Lying

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Ocean, Reflection

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

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• But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Tree, Sublime

  Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.266, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

  Joanna Baillie

  Moving, Justice, Boat

  Joanna Baillie, Judith Bailey Slagle (1999). “The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie”, p.128, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

  James Ellroy

  Mother, Dad, Years

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• Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for treatment for cancer from an American doctor and for a program that was developed in America?

  Larry McDonald

  Cancer, Fighting, Dark

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• A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

  John Millington Synge

  Circles, Sight, Fog

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching rains in the winters, fog off-shore in the summers, salmon surging up the streams - all these together make up a particular state of mind, a place-specific intelligence shared by all the humans that dwell therein, but also by the coyotes yapping in those valleys, by the bobcats and the ferns and the spiders, by all beings who live and make their way in that zone. Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

  David Abram

  Summer, Rain, Winter

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• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Bennie Thompson

  Education, Drug, Quality

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• If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Morning, People, Bird

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• It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Frustration, Wind, Sailing

  Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• When we arrive at eternity's shore
  Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
  We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
  Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'

  Phil Wickham

  Beautiful, Memories, Tears

  Song: You're Beautiful, Album: Cannons, 2007

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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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