Tides Quotes - Page 3

• There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Ocean, Water

  Rachel Carson (1989). “The Sea Around Us”, p.149, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
  When breath blew back,
  And on the other side
  I heard recede the disappointed tide!

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Sides, Eternity

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Ignorance, Soul

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• When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Focus

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• We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

  Germaine Greer

  Moon, Harmony, Ripple

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• Nae man can tether time or tide.

  Robert Burns

  Time, Men

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 67

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• His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Eye, Past

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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• Give wind and tide a chance to change.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Change, Wind, Giving

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Made

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• Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

  William Ellery Channing

  Rocks, Example, Gone

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• The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Stars, Children, Ocean

  Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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• In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

  Pat Conroy

  Crime

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.

  Anna Banks

  Morning, Escaping, People

  Anna Banks (2012). “Of Poseidon”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

  Elsa Barker

  Watches, Flow, Lows

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.

  Pat Conroy

  Keys, Solitude, Pay

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.80, Open Road Media

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• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

  David Hare

  Strong, Adversity, Two

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• In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

  Bob Marley

  Your Side, Sea, Sides

  Song: High Tide or Low Tide

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• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

  David Levithan

  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
  Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
  The day returns, but nevermore
  Returns the traveler to the shore,
  And the tide rises, the tide falls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Morning, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sea, Long, Giving

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.40, Lackington, Allen

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• Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Miscommunication

  "Humans are clueless on cause of oceanic tides, Bill O’Reilly claims" by Stephen C. Webster, www.rawstory.com. January 5, 2011.

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• Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Beach, Book, Writing

  1956 In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.

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• I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Thinking, Rocks

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• This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Communication, Night

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.99, Random House

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