Quotes About Strand

In listening mood she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.

I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.

He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while an unexploded bomb in the Strand was being dealt with. They could hear the naval guns that had been stationed on trolleys between Vauxhall and Waterloo--boom-boom-boom--but the bombers were looking for other targets and seemed to have moved on. 'Doesn't it ever stop?' Jimmy asked. 'Apparently not.' 'It's safer in the army,' he laughed.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature.

nematode trapped by a single looped fungal strand, or hypha.

I sat in our bedroom reading a horror novel called Whose Heart is in My Popcorn? Characterization was a bit thin, but boy could that woman write dismemberments.

Is someone in my tree?" I fought panic, and through Herculean effort managed to keep my pants dry. "No," I answered. She wasn't fooled.

Tug tended fire which cook him," said Gorp. "Cruel irony.

I apologize from distracting you from reading my books.

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

I feel that weaving is a precise metaphor for the way in which life is made," she said. "By which I mean individually constructed. Any strand can be woven in at the dictation of the imagination. I think of the philosophy of history as a loom of that sort. It is, isn't it?

There's a Douglas Fairbanks picture at the Strand. A swashbuckler. You love those." Evie closed one eye. "You're telling me not to lose hope because there are pirate pictures?" "I'm trying here, Baby Vamp. When you're facing evil, a good pirate picture doesn't hurt.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

Mary had written a memoir in 1959, making it easy for me to scratch the surface of her life. I found a dog-eared copy at the Strand Book Store downtown, read it, and was hooked. She was smart, witty, and self-denigrating.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.

The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.

Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.

A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush