Harbors Quotes

• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Hard Times, Rocks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.72

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Wind, Sea

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.195, Library of Alexandria

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• Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Finals

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.390, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor
  and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nature, Moving, Cat

  "Fog" l. 1 (1916)

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• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  Jack Adams

  Fog, Battle, Pearls

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• While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

  Bill Shuster

  Government, America, Generosity

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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Steve Forbes

  Defense, World, Pearls

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

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  Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Change, Wisdom, Art

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct 1958.

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• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

  Jean Houston

  Life, God, Believe

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

  Gregory Harrison

  July, Years, Heaven

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  Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

  John Belushi

  Silly, Pearls, Hell

  "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.

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• When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

  Hideki Tojo

  Blessing, Should Have, Reflecting Upon

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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  My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Kids

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• Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Pay, Finance

  "Clinton pay price". Hillary Clinton's remarks on terrorism of September 11, 2001, www.wavsource.com. September 13, 2001.

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• For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Wind, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

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• Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

  Neil Young

  Horse, Heart, Dark

  Song: Tell Me Why-live

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

  Peabo Bryson

  Life, Too Short, Life Is Too Short

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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• You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Jealousy, Credit, Accepting

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• Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

  Marsha Blackburn

  War, President, Middle East

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• As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

  Joe Baca

  Military, Pride, Men

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• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  New York, Freedom, Father

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• We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

  Jim DeMint

  Long, Support, Benefits

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