Harbor Quotes

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.