Quotes of Shore - somelinesforyou

“ You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. ”

- Frank Deford

“ Love is like the sea, it's a moving thing; but still it takes its shape from the shore it meets and it's different with every shore. ”

- Zora Neale Hurston

“ To die is landing on some distant shore. ”

- John Dryden

“ The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world. ”

- Wilford O. Cross

“ The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds. ”

- Phil Bredesen

“ Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ”

- John Updike

“ Wrecked on the lee shore of age. ”

- Sarah Orne Jewett

“ Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! ”

- John Keats

“ We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. ”

- John Archibald Wheeler

“ There is no death. The stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine forevermore. ”

- John Luckey McCreery

“ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ The sea complains upon a thousand shores. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. ”

- American Saying

“ Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames,Whose rushy bank the which his river hems. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ If you want to have great sex, find a partner who really turns you on. Pills are merely props, and props can turn out to be a big drag. ”

- Jackie Collins

“ And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts. ”

- Bible

“ Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. ”

- Lenny Bruce

“ And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. ”

- Bible

“ A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. ”

- John Lubbock

“ You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England. ”

- Robert Maxwell

“ I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next. ”

- Tom Ogden

“ It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. ”

- Ken Dodd

“ One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ”

- Graham Greene

“ The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm… to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ”

- Cyril Connelly

“ To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. ”

- William Godwin
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