Age Quote by Sarah Orne Jewett Download Open image “Wrecked on the lee shore of age.” — Sarah Orne Jewett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Aging Inspirational Love Shore
“Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share
“The surface of the sea in the lee of the island was black, but the offing was stained with dawn. The mountains enclosing the Gulf of Ise could be seen clearly. In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share
“All the passengers were crowded over on the landside of the ship, watching through the narrow windows the careened hulk of a freighter, visibly… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of… — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
“lay scattered on the shore at Old Harbor. Webber and crew used the motor lifeboat CG 36500 to help the fishermen pull the boats… — Michael J. Tougias Copy Share Image
“Then a small vessel in the lower left-hand corner caught his eye, something in the nature of a pink; she was beating up for the harbour, but it was obvious from the direction of the lady’s clothes that the pink would be taken aback the moment she rounded the headland. ‘As soon as she catches the land-breeze she will be… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat… — Stephen King Copy Share
“And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
