Quote by Walter Lord

“Today, to him gazing south with a new-born need stirring in his heart, the clear sky over their long low outline seemed to pulsate…

— Kenneth Grahame

“At their very feet had been the river. The boat came breasting out of the mist, and in they stepped. All new things in…

— Eudora Welty

“In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”

— Lao Tzu

“We are the archers with the bows that spring our children forward. Life does not go backward, nor does it tarry in yesterday. It…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

“Steer well! The harbor just ahead Aglow with glory’s ray, Will on thee golden luster shed, From out the gates of day, And waiting…

— Rae Carson

“The mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”

— Charles Dickens

“Oh scattered band, once my playmates, you few Who were amidst the gardens here and there in the city, How hesitantly we located one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as…

— Ishmael

“A sense of great masses moving at visionary speeds, of giants dancing, of eternal sorrows consoled, of he knew not what and yet he…

— C.S. Lewis

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and…

— Herman Melville