Tide Quotes

403 Tide quotes by 328 unique authors

The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did… — Plato
I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite… — Thomas Tusser
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And… — Alexander Pope
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind… — Joseph Conrad
I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should… — Mitch Hedberg
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is… — James Dickey
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they… — Earl Nightingale
When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,… — Aaron Hill
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide.… — Richard M. Nixon
I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE… — Arthur Gordon Webster
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to… — Rachel Carson
I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the… — David Letterman
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks… — John Muir
In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll… — Ruth Park
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. — Bayard Taylor

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