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Quotes About Shore

Don't think I'm a snob, but Siracusa seemed like a tourist destination for people who were lower middle class. The Jersey Shore as opposed to Long Island Sound.
~ Delia Ephron
Sometimes the mountain is hidden from me in veils of cloud, sometimes I am hidden from the mountain in veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue, when I forget or refuse to go down to the shore or a few yards up the road, on a clear day, to reconfirm that witnessing presence.
~ Denise Levertov
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
~ Harri Holkeri
At night, far from shore, stars pulse with a strength inconceivable in the proximity of light.
~ Jennifer Egan
Matt was glad that he had worn his old hooded blue sweatshirt rather than the new red one his mother had wanted him to wear. They would have thought I was a redcoat for sure , he thought, making his way through the groups of soldiers that were on the shore.
~ Elvira Woodruff
But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.
~ Emily Bronte
On this wondrous sea Sailing silently, Ho! Pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar— Where the storm is o'er? In the peaceful west Many the sails at rest— The anchors fast— Thither I pilot thee— Land Ho! Eternity! Ashore at last!
~ Emily Dickinson
On this wondrous sea - Sailing silently - Ho! pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o'er? In the silent west Many a sails at rest, Their anchors fast Thither I pilot thee Land, ho! Eternity! Ashore at last!
~ Emily Dickinson
Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.
~ Epictetus
Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.
~ Amanda Quick
To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Do you know what the best part of that swim was?" "No." "Knowing that you were on the shore waiting for me.
~ Andrew Davidson
Some fired, others balked. Decanted onto a strange, dark shore, many men feared shooting their own. The hillsides hissed with the night's challenge and countersign: "Hi yo, Silver!" and "Awaaay!
~ Rick Atkinson
He turn'd him right and round aboutUpon the Irish shore;And gae his bridle reins a shake,With adieu forevermore,My dear—And adieu forevermore!
~ Robert Burns
Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Have you ever noticed how many silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods...of the shore...of the meadows...of the night...of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread them are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell just where I was by the quality of the silence about me.
~ L.M. Montgomery
clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, ...
~ L.M. Montgomery
the old Virginia shore. So carry
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.
~ Gautama Buddha
Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston