Gale Quotes

106 Gale quotes by 59 unique authors

Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when… — Robert Montgomery
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from… — Joseph Conrad
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK.… — Daniel H. Wilson
I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale… — Peter Ackroyd
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their… — Robert Southey
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,… — William Cowper
If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a… — William Cowper
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. — Robert Herrick
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The… — Robert Bridges
Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed… — Herman Melville
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf
Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his… — Homer
Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. — Suzanne Collins
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey,… — Suzanne Collins
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,… — Shel Silverstein
Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I Instinctively… — Suzanne Collins

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