Best land & sight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.”

“Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.”

Heart Reality Eye Moving Imagination Sleep Land Sight Breathing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.”

Knows Land Ocean Sight Wave Superiors Ships Traits Crew Midnight Blast Michigan Lashes Shipwreck Ontario Expansiveness

Book:Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed

Source: Moby Dick the Whale Volume I EasyRead Ed

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".”

Long Doe Loses Land Ocean Long Time Crosses Sight Shore

Author:Christopher Columbus

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

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.”

Looks Christ Space Blood Land Dying Red Rivers Crosses Sight Finals Boat Height Swings Wet Nails Sailing Grey Palms Weeping Foul Grim Toss Berries Shiver Flooding Hangman Dank

Author:Alexander Blok

“Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.”

People Ideas Form Realizing Walks Land Draws Sight Embrace Passionate Practicals Sculpture Exactitude

Author:Barbara Hepworth

“Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.”

Heart Made Death Feet Land Sight Rings Household Pathways Graveyard

Author:Dan Simmons

“Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.”

Forever Sea Land Sight Pale Tranquillity

Book:The collected poems of Yvor Winters

Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.”

Giving Feels Firsts Soul Water Boys Sea Crazy Land Brother Holy Healthy Sight Environmental Ships Greek Mystical Deities Vibrations Voyages Passengers Robust Healthy Soul

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.”

May Night Land Sight Anger Wave Careful Be Careful Tides Threshold Rubbish Toss Outgoing

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!”

Country Done Heaven Christ Land Sight Delicious Country Love

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.”

I Can Country Life Is Water Growing Land Sight Native Awkward Native Land Country Love

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate”

“I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.”

Ifs Persons Bigs Three Sea Land Concern Sight Storm Boat

Author:Casey Affleck

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