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Quotes About Atlantic

Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
~ Wilbur Smith
I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck
On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.
~ Max Boot
Until 1839 South Mills was New Lebanon, named by Bible-minded people inspired by the great stately Atlantic white cedars, or juniper, that throve in vast stretches of the Swamp all around them.
~ Bland Simpson
In the early 1700s, this mirrored the situation in England and the rest of Europe, but medicine on the Continent began to undergo modernizing changes, although these were very slow to cross the Atlantic. Europe began to embrace public-health measures and medical advances such as widespread vaccination, scientific medical education, and the rise of the hospital, but American progress lagged behind, especially in the insular South. The
~ Harriet A. Washington
in the 1970s people still referred to my mother as a Communist because she had a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly,
~ Haven Kimmel
I'd like to see Alaska or cross the Atlantic. My father-in-law spent some years crewing luxury yachts from port to port for their owners. He says the starlit skies over the Atlantic are extraordinary because there is no light pollution. I like the thought of seeing those stars, G&T in hand.
~ Phillip Schofield
As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.
~ Eric Metaxas
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
So Whitney's gin not only helped make many people rich on both sides of the Atlantic but also reinvigorated slavery, turned child labor into a necessity, and paved the way for the American Civil War. Perhaps at no other time in history has someone with a simple, well-meaning invention generated more general prosperity, personal disappointment, and inadvertent suffering than Eli Whitney with his gin. That is quite a lot of consequence for a simple rotating drum.
~ Bill Bryson
That Morocco is not just another Arab country. It's a crossroads – between Africa and Europe, and between Arabia and what lies west, beyond the Atlantic. But...' Ghita said, her voice touched with an undertone of pride, 'beyond all else it's Berber.
~ Tahir Shah
We go eastward to realize history, and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. The Atlantic is a Lethan stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity to forget the Old World and its institutions.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Her tact had to reckon with the Atlantic Ocean, the General Post-Office and the extravagant curve of the globe.
~ Henry James
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
~ Ed Koch
I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.
~ Christine Tsai
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.
~ Deborah Cox
Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall," the paratroopers liked to say. "He forgot to put a roof on it.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
Our national parks hold our stories in inexplicable ways. Acadia National Park may be small in size but the vista it offers across the Atlantic is a passionate genealogy of all that is infinite and alive above and below the surface.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
serenely revelled in dalliance and delight. But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. Meanwhile
~ Herman Melville
It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.
~ Herman Melville
Yes; all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. One and all, they were harpooned and dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat like that?
~ Herman Melville
Under international trade laws, "sardine" covers almost two dozen species of fish (for U.S. products it exclusively means young herring), though the true sardine, from Portugal, Spain, France, Morocco, and Algeria, refers to the young pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) caught in Mediterranean or Atlantic waters.
~ Holly Hughes
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
~ Winston Churchill
Hill-Billie was threatening for being free from hierarchy and unassimilated into Atlantic capitalism.
~ Steven Stoll