Quotes About Harbor

Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.

My preference was the demolition of the lobby altogether. [Of all of my books], only Sula has this 'entrance.' The others refuse the 'presentation,' refuse the seductive safe harbor; the line of demarcation between…them and us. Refuse, in effect, to cater to the diminished expectations of the reader, or his or her alarm heightened by the emotional luggage one carries into the black-topic text….

Maine as we can. Boothbay Harbor, Kennebunkport, maybe even all the way up to Mount Desert to catch the country's earliest sunrise.

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Leathery bar girls worked the charter booths at the harbor, smoking Basic 100s and talking in voices that sounded like 151 rum poured into hot grease—a jigger of friendly to the liter of harsh.

The sun in on the harbor, love, And I wish I could remain, For I know it will be some long, long time, Before I see you again.

Already in the sacred bowl I've quaff'd oblivion, and my rapturous soul Heav'n's harbour gains full sail!

As he passed me my mittens, he took my hand between his own. "What an odd course fate charts for us, does it not? Bereavement is the unwelcome current that forced you to an unintended harbor. But here, perhaps, the vessel lies that will carry you onward to the place where you were always meant to go.

And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

I must have entered a time warp or I've fallen into the Twilight Zone. Which is it? Neither. You're at the harbor in San Felipe, and you're looking at your home for the next two weeks. Good lord, an honest-to-God steamboat with a walking beam engine and side paddlewheels. I must admit it does have an air of Mark Twain about it. What do you want to bet it ferried Grant's troops across the Mississippi to Vicksburg?

Somehow, this dark Breed warrior who was so formidable, so expertly lethal, had become her safe harbor. Her haven.

America was under attack! Hundreds of bomber planes were swarming over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Trinidad went first, slipping past Sugar Loaf and coming quietly to anchor in the harbor. Magellan had arrived in the New World.

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

After three busy days in one of Tenerife's harbors, Pigafetta wrote, "We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,   Nature without check with original energy.

For men must work, and women must weep,And there's little to earn and many to keep,Though the harbor bar be moaning.

We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A few golden butterflies and dragonflies were fluttering around us. The afternoon air was warm and clean, and the town below us seemed like a green harbor full of white sails.