Shore Quotes

To die is landing on some distant shore.

After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.