Quotes About Hebrides

Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls,Boils round the naked melancholy islesOf farthest Thulè, and th' Atlantic surgePours in among the stormy Hebrides.

From the lone sheiling of the misty islandMountains divide us, and the waste of seas—Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.

Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,Where thou perhaps under the whelming tideVisit'st the bottom of the monstrous world.

The youngest of ten children, Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912 in her parents' home in the village of Tong on the rugged Scottish Isle of Lewis, which is closer to Iceland than London. She was descended from two clans, the Smiths and MacLeods, with deep roots in the Hebrides.

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture,

Beatniks are a youth cult that fight against society by wearing sunglasses even in inclement weather. This signifies their dislike of 'the sun', their sworn enemy. In the Beatniks' Manifesto they declare they will, one day, destroy the sun by using enormous pelicans that will trap it in their under-chin beak pouches and fly off to some distant place like the Hebrides and bury it beneath a pile of farmyard manure, and then the beatniks shall inherit the earth.