Quote by Elin Hilderbrand Download Open image ““oohing and aahing over the Old Whaling Church and”” — Elin Hilderbrand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
“I do not know where I can find a better place than just here, to make mention of one or two other things, which to me seem important, as in printed form establishing in all respects the reasonableness of the whole story of the White Whale, more especially the catastrophe. For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance,… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I- being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude- how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whaleships' standing orders, "Keep your weather eye open, and… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The earth rests on three whales: On the deeds of heroes. On the prayers of believers. On the toasts of drunkards.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An eccentric Connecticut whaling captain named Preserved Fish and his cousin-partner Joseph Grinnell shifted from hawking New Bedford whale oil to running the Swallowtail… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“The next day, William Lanney's much abused remains were carried in a coffin to the cemetery. The crowd of mourners was large. It included… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me. Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine. But somehow I grew merry again. Delightful inducements to embark,… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Perfect happiness existed, but perhaps only in small increments.” — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“The Greydon House is the new hot spot on Nantucket; Bart remembers when it was his dentist’s office. It has been reimagined as a… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“Summer does something to the brain, " Beth said. "It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers ” — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
The world needs voices that are positive and grateful, and that can be me. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
