Shore Quotes

• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

  Sarah Kay

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Ocean, Ends

  Song: Oh, Sister, Album: Desire

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

  Winston Churchill

  Ocean, Want, Firsts

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• The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Rhythm, Asks

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• A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

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  You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Kissing, Hug

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

  William Shakespeare

  Wave, Ends, Minutes

  Sonnet 60

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• More than 200 ships from 13 nations conducted over 10,000 flawless intercepts, which formed a steel wall around the waters leading to Iraq. And these operations continue today. Thanks to these superb efferts not one cargo hold, not one crate, not even one pallet of seaborne contraband even touched Saddam Hussein's shores. The result: Iraq lost 90% of its imports, 100% of its exports, and had its gross national product cut in half.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Wall, War, Cutting

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• 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Nature, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.537

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• Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Pieces, Sometimes

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.6, Random House

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• It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

  Carol Bly

  Navigation, Theory, Difficult

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sea, Safety, Riches

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• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

  Plato

  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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• The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

  Rachel Carson

  Sea, Land, Long

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• cause down the shore everything's all right

  Bruce Springsteen

  Causes, Jersey Girl

  Song: Jersey Girl

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sea, Water

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• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

  Francis Drake

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In the sea there are countless treasures,
  But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sea

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• Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Swings, Sea

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

  Anacreon

  Kissing, Sea, Wave

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