Shore Quotes

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. (André Gide)
Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. View quote
André Gide
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. View quote
John Updike
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. View quote
Steven Wright
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. View quote
John Archibald Wheeler
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. View quote
Bryan Procter
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. View quote
William Shakespeare
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. (Lucretius)
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again. View quote
Richard Bach
It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. View quote
Florence Nightingale
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. View quote
Charles Lamb
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Lord Byron
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. View quote
Bob Balaban
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. (Haruki Murakami)
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. View quote
Ralph Steadman
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There various news I heard of love and strife, Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life, Of loss and gain, of famine and of store, Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore, Of prodigies, and portents seen in air, Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair, Of turns of fortune, changes in the state, The fall of favourites, projects of the great, Of aid mismanagements, taxations new: All neither wholly false, nor wholly true. View quote
Alexander Pope