Tide Quotes

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. View quote
James Russell Lowell
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. View quote
Warren Buffett
If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up. View quote
Peter David
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. View quote
Moshe Sharett
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course. View quote
John Tyler
Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain. Let the brokenhearted love again. Sherry we can run with our arms open before the tide. (Bruce Springsteen)
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance...to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man...The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent. View quote
James Frazer
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others. View quote
Jonah Goldberg
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. View quote
Hal Borland
As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not. View quote
Roger Ebert
So I guess I'll remain the same Sittin' here restin' my bones. Wish this loneliness would leave me alone. For 2,000 miles I roamed Just to make this dock my home. Sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time. View quote
Otis Redding
It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach. View quote
Yoshida Kenkō
I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl ... leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay. (Björk)
For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay. View quote
William Somervile
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay And if in death still lovely, lovelier there Far lovelier pity swells the tide of love. View quote
Edward Young
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. View quote
Victor Hugo