Shores Quotes
191 quotes by 164 authors
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Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions…
— Anthony Weiner
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
— Madame de Stael
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I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large…
— Yuri Gagarin
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It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
— Alexander Smith
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan…
— Colin Powell
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…
— Michelle Obama
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens…
— Antonio Machado
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
— Charles Lapworth
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.…
— Arthur Eddington
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It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The…
— Isaac Todhunter
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By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States.…
— Barack Obama
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as…
— Benjamin Jowett
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There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan...Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,…
— Robert Muller
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The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather…
— Joseph McCarthy
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A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
— Peter O'Toole
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Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped…
— George W. Bush
Who Wrote These Shores Quotes
164 authors contributed a total of 191 Shores Quotes, led by these top contributors: