Tides Quotes
499 Tides quotes by 399 unique authors
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Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new experience of life…
— Meher Baba
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.
— Steve McNair
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The tides are in our veins.
— Robinson Jeffers
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
— Edward Gorey
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease,…
— A. C. Benson
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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his…
— Richard E. Byrd
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These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.
— William C. Bryant
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Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination…
— John F. Kennedy
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What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.
— Walter Scott
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The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole…
— Henry Beston
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We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.
— Robert Breault
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In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of…
— Layne Redmond
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Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey…
— James Joyce
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human…
— Adrienne Rich
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It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps…
— James Agee
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Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free…
— Jonathan Raban
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You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day,…
— Regina Spektor
Who Wrote These Tides Quotes
399 authors contributed a total of 499 Tides Quotes, led by these top contributors: