Tides Quotes
499 Tides quotes by 399 unique authors
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Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable…
— William Butler Yeats
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
— Tim O'Brien
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I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars
— T.E. Lawrence
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In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care…
— Jeanette Winterson
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For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,…
— David Mitchell
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As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass,…
— Dan Brown
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Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my…
— Kami Garcia
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The rising tide lifts all the boats.
— John F. Kennedy
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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,…
— Edmund Spenser
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Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that…
— Juliet Marillier
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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my…
— Pablo Neruda
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and…
— James Joyce
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This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown…
— Thomas Hardy
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Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface…
— Kathy Lette
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There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried…
— Tana French
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Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry of boundless, dark,…
— Yukio Mishima
Who Wrote These Tides Quotes
399 authors contributed a total of 499 Tides Quotes, led by these top contributors: