Shore Quotes - Page 35

• They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Flying

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1874). “Songs from the Southern Seas: And Other Poems”, p.190

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• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Europe, Whales, Spain

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• And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

  Al Purdy

  Beer, Drunk, Floating

  Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Opportunity, America

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• And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.

  Dylan Thomas

  Adventure, Sea, Vines

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

  Gautama Buddha

  Enemy, Fool, Wealth

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• After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

  Lou Holtz

  Country, Army, Invasion

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• Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Dog, Rain, Home

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books

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• Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Mother, Children, Fun

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books

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• Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.
  Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
  Shore his old thread in twain.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Grief, Poor

  Shane Barnes, Aidan Coleman, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello”, p.193, Insight Publications

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• It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't maistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything. We cannot, in the name of the finger or the raft kill each other. Human life is more precious than any ideology, any doctrine.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Moon, Names

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• We are truly the land of the great. From the rock shores of... Hawaii... to the beautiful sandy beaches of... Hawaii... America is our home.

  Sarah Palin

  Beautiful, Beach, Home

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• The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S.

  George Packer

  War, Mistake, Thinking

  "Planning for Defeat" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2007.

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• The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Impossible Situations, Desire

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

  Gertrude Ederle

  Beach, Children, Crazy

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• Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Men, Sides

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• The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

  Corey Ford

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Corey Ford (2003). “Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK”, p.11, Graphic Arts Books

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Love You, Water

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.295, A&C Black

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• Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ocean, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 193, 1980.

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• I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ocean, Sides, Both Sides

  "The Shape" by Dejan Stojanovic, Gramatik, Podgorica, "Citizens of the City of Light", (p. 27), 2000.

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• Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Air, Sea

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• Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you're more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.

  Seth Godin

  Path, Use, Environment

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