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Quotes About Shore

Henceforth, safe across the river, I shall see forever more A beloved, household spirit Waiting for me on the shore. Hope and faith, born of my sorrow, Guardian angels shall become, And the sister gone before me, By their hands shall lead me home.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The writer's beliefs and convictions heighten his language. In our eyes, as well as in his own, it is no longer a band of adventurers seeking their fortune beyond the seas; it is the germ of a great nation which God has placed upon a predestined shore.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
IN THE LOBBY of her building, people fresh out of the wind were huffing and puffing like swimmers just crawled up on shore. She
~ Alice McDermott
Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.
~ Alice Munro
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.
~ Caroline Norton
An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
~ Dylan Thomas
We hear the ocean in our dreams,' " Neeka said, " 'our cages of blood and bone sing her songs. Exiled on shore, our tongues caress the lost words we no longer understand, her language of salt and surging.'
~ Eden Robinson
"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
~ Edgar Allan Poe
No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.
~ Anthony Doerr
Riding in parallel on the shore was his cavalry. Then up from the south marched Sextus' infantry.
~ Anthony Everitt
ILLYRICUM WAS A WILD AND savage place. It lay along much of the length of the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea
~ Anthony Everitt
The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous thing to men who want to hide from it.' Dr
~ Frank Herbert
There were clouds in the sky and far off toward the open water at the distant end of the bay was a hint of fog. Frank eyed the mist doubtfully. It would take some time to make a close search of the caves on the north shore, and if fog came up, a hunt would be difficult.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
The motorboat edged its way along the face of the cliff. Whenever the boys noticed one of the larger openings that could be reached easily from the shore, Frank ran the boat in among the rocks. Then, while one boy stayed in the Sleuth, the others would scramble up to investigate the cave. The hours dragged by. Finally they navigated to a place where the cliff sloped and began to give way to sandy hills and wooded inclines. Biff
~ Franklin W. Dixon
There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.
~ John Burnside
I love the Shore at Katathani in Thailand! They have the best pool.
~ Eva Gutowski
I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.
~ Michael Imperioli
I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Time is the wave upon the shore. It takes some things away, but it brings other things.
~ Amy Neftzger
I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.
~ Amy Neftzger
Surely the sun is already hammering the beach like a tinsmith.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.
~ Sarah Kay
My whole desire is to run up and down the sea coast looking for you.
~ John Cage