Pacific Quotes
202 quotes by 176 authors
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Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it…
— Darryl Cherney
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I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his…
— James Joyce
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It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive...(it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.
— Holland Smith
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
— Gavin MacLeod
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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I've just got a new house in Pacific Palisades. It's really cute.
— Claire Forlani
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Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out…
— Maggie Shipstead
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Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise…
— Miriam
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Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.
— Sigmar Gabriel
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We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds,…
— Junipero Serra
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American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
— Donald Freed
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We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the…
— Shigeru Yoshida
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Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in…
— Chen Shui-bian
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It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the…
— Antoine Predock
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There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries…
— Steven Spielberg
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From the city of angels off the Pacific Ocean. Good morning, good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation, around the world. I'm George…
— George Noory
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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
— H.G. Wells
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For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with…
— Tom Clancy
Who Wrote These Pacific Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 202 Pacific Quotes, led by these top contributors: