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Quotes About Breakers

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
~ Stephen King
...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
~ Jeaniene Frost
in that single glimpse they saw to their terror that they were only a short distance outside the line of breakers
~ Alfred Lansing
remember what my father taught me about orienting. Look for a large marker, then a small one. Find the mountain, then look for the valley, then the tree. Or in the treasure-hunting world, the breakers, the reef, then the cove.
~ Andrew Mayne
She could hear singing in the distance. One of the Breakers' marches, out on the Middleway. So long kept prisoner, they loved to march. So long kept silent, they loved to sing. To blurt their opinions from every street corner. Food and fuel might be in short supply, but of opinion there was a glut.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You will be one of the menders of this world; not the makers, nor yet the breakers, just one of the menders.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. PSALM 42:7
~ Sarah Young
Darwin's mind had been profoundly shaped by Lyell's understanding of the deep time of geological transformation, but standing on the beach, watching the breakers crash against the coral, he knows that his mentor is wrong about the origin of the atolls. It is not a story of simple geology, he realizes. It is a story about the innovative persistence of life.
~ Steven Johnson
They're all staying at the Casa Marina, the old hotel built by Henry Flagler, the railroad guy who built the Breakers in Palm Beach
~ Stuart Woods
and so left him to be floated away to the starry archipelagoes; for not only do they believe that the stars are isles, but that far beyond all visible horizons, their own mild, uncontinented seas, interflow with the blue heavens; and so form the white breakers of the milky way.
~ Herman Melville
In my dream I see the sea, the utterly calm sea. I see the coast, the utterly calm coast. When this utterly calm sea meets the utterly still coast, huge breakers are suddenly thrown up. Two sorts of stillness touch one and other and explode in roars and foam.
~ Sven Lindqvist
Breakers. Ian was the president of the Miami Thunder. Half brothers.
~ Carly Phillips
THE EXERCISES These are quite unlike conventional keep-fit exercises. They are habit breakers. They require mental rather than physical effort. They are designed to examine and remedy the tense and over-effortful way in which you have been making everyday actions, and to encourage your body to revert to its natural, tension-free state.
~ Unknown
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
~ Psalm 42:7
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
~ Jonah 2:3