Shore Quotes - Page 33

• There's keen delight in what we have:
  The rattle of pebbles on the shore
  Under the receding wave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heritage, Delight, Pebbles

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Lakes, Europe And America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, Siege

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• Yes, I would (be a big hit on Dancing with the Stars), but I don't think I can be wearing those tight outfits they have on there. I'm a very good dancer. I'm the John Travolta of Venezuela. If I was one of the 'Jersey Shore' guys and I had their stomach, then hell yeah I would do it.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Stars, Thinking, Dancing

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• No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Nature, Ocean, Swim

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• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Adventure

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Weed, Beach, Eye

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.187, Vintage

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

  John Wesley

  Land, Heaven, Safe

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.89, Oxford University Press

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• The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

  Kevin James

  Heart, Moon, Sea

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• Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

  Petronius

  Home, Youth, Aliens

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• Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

  Lord Byron

  Disappointment, Sea, Apples

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 34

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• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  Lord Byron

  Travel, Eye, Grieving

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Blow, Coquette

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.

  John Linder

  Immigration, Mexico, Lines

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• I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
  had made him fugitive: he was the first
  to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
  as Italy and the Lavinian shores
  Across the lands and waters he was battered
  beneath the violence of the high ones for
  the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

  Virgil

  Fate, Journey, Men

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

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• Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped transform 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people.

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Growing

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• When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Godly, Men, Land

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Culture, Minutes, Happens

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• Better wilt thou live...by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms.

  Horace

  Sea, Hug, Storm

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• The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

  Vito Fossella

  Jobs, Issues, Climate

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• America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.

  Jay Severin

  Acceptance, America, Culture

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• I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

  Oscar Levant

  Watches, Shows

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• Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

  Dorothea Lange

  Ocean, Artist, Beats

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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