Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There honestly is nothing like fresh cockles from Swansea market. They just taste of the sea. Add some vinegar, salt and pepper… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek… — Lucan Copy Share Image
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is… — Taliesin Copy Share Image
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace,… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief /… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets,… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image