Foam Quotes

• Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Ice Cream, Cake

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• When you blow away the foam, you get down to the real stuff.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Real, Blow, Stuff

  T. Boone Pickens (2008). “The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future”, p.84, Crown Business

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• Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Mikhail Lermontov (2009). “A Hero Of Our Time”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sea, White, Firsts

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• Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.

  Gautama Buddha

  Shadow, Body, Wave

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• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Home, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Rocks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.184, University of Missouri Press

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Love, Beauty, Sympathy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver

  Khalil Gibran

  Blow, Wind, Sea

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• I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

  Raymond Chandler

  Tonight, Calling, Want

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.464, Modern Library

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• A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

  John Millington Synge

  Circles, Sight, Fog

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

  Alton Brown

  Water, Add, Littles

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• The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

  Arthur Symons

  Sleep, Wind, Sea

  Arthur Symons (1919). “Poems”

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Sea, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.825, Delphi Classics

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• You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

  Wallace Stegner

  Notebook, Morning, Lying

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.191, Modern Library

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• One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

  Homer

  Travel, Rivers, Rushing

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.137

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• And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

  Robert Bridges

  Home, Moon, Shadow

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Lonely, Fall

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Sea”

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• Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

  Walter Scott

  Death, Art, Rivers

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”, p.458

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• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Weed, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Blow, Men

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• God bless America, land that I love,
  Stand beside her, and guide her,
  Through the night, with the light from above,
  From the mountains, to the prairies
  To the oceans, white with foam
  God bless America, my home sweet home,
  God bless America! My Home Sweet Home!

  Irving Berlin

  Sweet, Ocean, Home

  "God Bless America" (song) (1939) See Peeke 1

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• Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Truth, Half

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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