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682 Shore quotes by 524 unique authors

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. — Alan Bennett
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in… — John Milton
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to… — Roy Barnes
What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat… — Woody Allen
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap… — Angela Elwell Hunt
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you… — Elizabeth Hay
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among… — Henry Van Dyke
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge,… — Plato
Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the… — Curnonsky
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard… — Unknown Author
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And… — Walter Scott
And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore… — Edgar Allan Poe
Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should… — Morihei Ueshiba
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New… — Helge Ingstad
I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go… — Ethel Smyth
Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you… — Sarada Devi
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will… — Richard Bode
And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory… — William Wordsworth
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it… — William Butler Yeats
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye;… — Wallace Stevens
As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some… — Celia Thaxter
I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward… — Lucretius
Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S… — Jack Handey

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