Pacific Quotes

202 Pacific quotes by 176 unique authors

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not… — Larry McMurtry
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the… — Haile Selassie
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted… — George Bird Grinnell
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain… — Joe Queenan
There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to. — Peter Arnett
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of… — Arthur Honegger
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for… — Unknown Author
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all… — Elizabeth Kolbert
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in… — Jenny Shipley
The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear… — Jenny Shipley
There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types… — Martha Smith
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes… — Wilfred Burchett
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war… — Hideki Tojo
The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung,… — Al Gore
If surrender could have been brought about in May, 1945, or even in June or July, before the entrance of Soviet Russia into the [Pacific]… — Joseph Grew
There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics. — Nathan Adrian
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. — Noel Fisher
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man. — Joshua Slocum
Hawaiâ€˜i Pacific University's new use of the iconic Aloha Tower Marketplace will continue its historic role of welcoming visitors, and now students, to the heart… — Unknown Author
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and… — Michael Foley

Who Wrote These Pacific Quotes

176 authors contributed a total of 202 Pacific Quotes, led by these top contributors: