Shore Quotes - Page 30

• The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores.

  Steve Jobs

  Fishes, Washing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.52, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Light, Wave

  'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples' (1818)

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• This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Powerful

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

  George Arnold

  Growing Up, Moon, Simple

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.30

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.

  James Hollis

  Children, Sea, Sound

  James Hollis, David H. Rosen (2002). “The Archetypal Imagination”, p.119, Texas A&M University Press

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

  Pauly Shore

  Comedy

  "MY LA: Pauly Shore Talks Being Chauffeured By Comedians, Why Michael Bay Hates Him and How He Really Feels About The Valley". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

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• All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

  Richard Wilbur

  Ocean, Knows, Touched

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Departure, Commerce

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.

  David Cassidy

  Mom, Years, Height

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• Before Jersey Shore, I was a DJ struggling to promote, deejaying six nights a week and hustling to pack clubs.

  Pauly D

  Struggle, Night, Hustle

  "Jersey Shore Season 3 Finale: Pauly D Interview on Justin Bieber & More". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. March 23, 2011.

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• A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.

  George Arnold

  Summer, Sleep, Dark

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.81

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Sunset, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

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• I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear,
  or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Sailing, Nautical, Dip

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• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Bible, Rumor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• Their understanding
  Begins to swell and the approaching tide
  Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
  That now lie foul and muddy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Understanding

  William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.63

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• O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Soul, Vain

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Jesus, People, Church

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• Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

  Charles Dickens

  Loss, Names, Ships

  Charles Dickens (1861). “The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.232

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

  Emily Dickinson

  Wind, Sea, Water

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

  Herman Melville

  Topics, Poor, Should

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1380, Delphi Classics

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