Tides Quotes - Page 15

• The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

  Frank Waters

  Ocean, Desert, Sage

  Frank Waters (1999). “Mountain Dialogues”, Swallow Press

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• Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Hero, Sleep, Blood

  Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

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• The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Beach, Men, Order

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand

  Robert Macfarlane

  Feet, World, Lines

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• To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Giving

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• After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

  Alexander Dubcek

  War, Axes, Pearls

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• The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Art, Prayer, Distance

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• Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It's a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to flee, the storms, droughts, famines, and rising tides of global warming.

  Fred Small

  Children, Color, Issues

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• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

  Stephen Holden

  Pride, Games, Two

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• I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.

  Rila Fukushima

  Fashion, Inspiration, Unique

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• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Running, Taken, Simple

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• Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?

  Charles Francis Potter

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• The tide of my love
  Has risen so high let me flood
  over
  
  You.

  Hafez

  Love, Over You, Flood

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• What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the Bois de Belleau and the Village of Bouresches stained with their blood, and not only taken away from the Germans in the full tide of their advance against the French, but held by my boys against counter attacks day after day and night after night. I cannot write of their splendid gallantry without tears coming to my eyes.

  James Harbord

  Taken, Eye, Writing

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Grief

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

  John Burroughs

  Time, Fate, Hands

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers”

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• It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

  Malia Manuel

  Wind, Drug, Shifting

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• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Wanted

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• I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

  Tommy Rettig

  Years, Four, Bucks

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• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

  Silius Italicus

  Haste, Fortune, Tidy

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• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

  Moshe Sharett

  Return, Impossible, Undoing

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• I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

  Ron Chernow

  Past, Thinking, Historian

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• Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

  Tony Danza

  Kids, Long, Innocent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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