Tides Quotes

499 Tides quotes by 399 unique authors

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
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And… — Walt Whitman
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
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry… — Phineas Fletcher
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
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist… — Eric Maisel
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
Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides. — Emily Dickinson
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
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides. — Dylan Thomas
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
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person… — Galileo Galilei

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