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Quotes About Shore

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
~ Hindu proverb
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
~ Virgil
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.
~ Isabella Bird
When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
~ Taylor Swift
Rural Virginians know when they're getting a raw deal - when other parts of the state get attention and resources and folks on the Shore or in Southwest are fighting just to get access to reliable Internet.
~ Ralph Northam
Your voice falls on my ears like a rhapsody on a lonely shore.Perhaps like a molten metal which I gulp down thirstily and it soothes my throat with the warmth and freezes when it reaches my heart.
~ Samrta Marks
I played the Holiday Motel on the circle in 1970. I know the Jersey Shore.
~ Frank Vincent
Septimus. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
~ Tom Stoppard
Even before the boat was fully beached, he jumped into the shallow water. "Gates, his bay!" he supposedly shouted as he slogged ashore. Whether or not the tale is true, the bay on the eastern shore of St. George's Island still bears Gates's name.
~ Kieran Doherty
Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.
~ George Seferis
The shallow sea in the bays was butterfly blue, and even above the sound of the ship's engines we could hear, faintly ringing from the shore like a chorus of tiny voices, the shrill, triumphant cries of the cicadas.
~ Gerald Durrell
Praise the sea, but keep on land.
~ George Herbert
Praise the sea; on shore remain.
~ John Florio
the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.
~ Jack Kerouac
the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
~ Jack Kerouac
the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never, I think of Dean Moriarty.
~ Jack Kerouac
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
~ Saadi
I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
~ William Shakespeare
This tottered ensign of my ancestors Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea Whereof we got the name of Mortimer, Will I advance upon these castle-walls. Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!
~ Christopher Marlowe
Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.
~ Christopher Paolini
Hoc spumans mundanas obvallat Pelagus oras terrestres amniosis fluctibus cudit margines. Saxeas undosis molibus irruit avionas. Infima bomboso vertice miscet glareas asprifero spergit spumas sulco, sonoreis frequenter quatitur flabris
~ Umberto Eco
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
~ Updike