Tides Quotes - Page 20

It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

James Agee

Summer, Sleep, Night

James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Jonathan Raban

Sea, Cities, Mud

Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Edward Norton

Men, Waiting, Honeymooners

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Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Richard E. Byrd

Change, Science, Wind

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I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Sarah McLachlan

Ocean, Sadness, Tears

Song: I Will Not Forget You, 1991

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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

John Denver

Philosophy, Ocean, Wind

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There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

Nik Kershaw

Hair, Trying, Stem

"What I see in the mirror" by Nik Kershaw, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

Regina Spektor

Fun, Hate, Fall

Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2006.

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Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

Pope Francis

Christian, Heart, Young Friends

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

Flannery O'Connor

Christian, Fall, Thinking

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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Ralph Ellison

Crush, Art, Men

Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.133, Modern Library

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Who knows what the tide could bring.

William Broyles, Jr.

Inspiring Movie, Cast Away, Castaway

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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

Bob Burg

Generosity, Giving, Ships

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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

Aaron Hill

Wine, Water, Red

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Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Richard M. Nixon

Middle, Vocation, Streams

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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Eric Maisel

Artist, Boredom, Excitement

Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

Arthur Gordon Webster

Beach, Writing, Adversity

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An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

David Letterman

Funny, Humor, Fields

David Letterman, Andy Breckman (1985). “Late night with David Letterman: the book”, Random House Inc

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I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes ... She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench ... She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing ... She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial.

David Letterman

Mom, Real, Bus Stops

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In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Ruth Park

Morning, Sea, Sky

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Fashion, Ebb And Flow, Cities

John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.95, tredition

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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.

Galileo Galilei

Independent, Science, Moon

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But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

War, Past, Men

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

John Lennon

Moving, Years, People

John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Confidence, Heart, Men

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.221

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