Shore Quotes - Page 18

• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  Harri Holkeri

  Country, Sea, Water Of Life

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• Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

  Merle Shain

  Real, Thinking, Empty Vessels

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

  Alan Bennett

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

  John Milton

  Children, Native Language, Delight

  John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

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• We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

  Roy Barnes

  Islands, Blue, Rivers

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• What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Time, Men

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• I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Princess, Sleep

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• Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother
  to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this
  gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else,
  Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Bird, Flying

  RICHARD BACH (1970). “JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL”

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• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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• In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.

  Mark Epstein

  Self, Land, Feelings

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• Little boats should keep near shore

  Benjamin Franklin

  Row Boats, Littles, Should

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.241

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• There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
  There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it.
  There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

  Kabir

  Sky, Rivers, Rope

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• Thousands of dead fish have now washed up on shore along the coast of South Carolina. Today the NRA said that this wouldn't have happened if those fish had guns.

  Jay Leno

  Gun, Today, South Carolina

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• Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave
  Another year has burst upon the shore
  Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
  Wandering in broken accents in the air,
  Are dying to an echo.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Echoes, Air

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• Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Travel, Strong

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Japan, Two

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• Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Swimming, Prize Money, Safety

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• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

  Antonio Machado

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• The only person I've had sex with on Jersey Shore is my boyfriend

  Nicole Polizzi

  Sex, My Boyfriend, Jersey

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• We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

  Josh Holloway

  Funny, Softball, Hawaii

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• It rolls in grandeur lone--
  The stream of Time;
  And on its shores lie strown
  The wrecks of every clime.

  Harvey Rice

  Time, Lying, Wrecks

  Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.21

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• Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

  Charlie Cook

  Sight, Sea, Forever

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• When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Spring, Journey

  'The Grasmere Journals' 15 April 1802.

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