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“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

“The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.”

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”

World Long Country Example Ocean Patterns Obligation Frontiers Pacific Guarded Pacific Ocean

Author:Winston Churchill

“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”

Humans Long Form Culture Voice Silence Heard Ocean Blue Medicine Jazz Edges Apollo Whales Dolphins Hunted Human Voice Delphi

Author:Jay Griffiths

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.”

Thinking Years Wells Long Reason Action Brain Silence Millions Effects Civilization Ocean Understood Presses Notion Symbols Vanity Cosmic Long Ago Sage Yogi Unbreakable Omniscience Solaris

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.”

Long Body Water Ocean Pool Coming Out Diving Bodies Of Water

Author:Sarah Carter

“I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.”

Want Littles Long Stories Watches Ocean Hot Add Fishes What You Want Cartoon Fascination Tanks Chicks Mermaid Long Story Fish Tanks Hot Chick Cool Movie

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Ladies have come up with all these expressions to reassure men. "Oh, honey, it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean." That may be true, but it takes a long time to get to England in a rowboat.”

Men May Long Humor Funny Expression Ocean Long Time England Size Come Up Ships Being True Honey

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

“I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.”

Ifs Knows Long Night Interest Gone Sea Ocean Bird Distance Get Away Length Where You Are Squares Salt Horns Dilemma Priceless Serpent Hippopotamus

Book:Many Moons

Source: Many Moons

“Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.”

Long Made Happens Culture Language Force Difficult Happened Information Position Ocean Historical Decades Made It Islands Conspiracy Vegas Puerto Rico Rico

Author:Nelson Antonio Denis

“I'm afraid too many of us Christians don't know what we really believe. Like a cork in the ocean, driven and tossed by the waves, we bounce from opinion to opinion... We've become activity junkies, seldom stopping long enough to decide what really matters to us, too busy to determine what's really worth living for, let alone worth dying for.”

Knows Believe Long Matter Enough Christian Opinion Dying Activity Ocean Busy Wave Determine Driven Stopping Worth Living Too Busy Bounce Junkie Cork

Author:Dennis Rainey

“You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.”

Thinking Knows Long Process Gone Higher Ocean Long Time Depth Bottom Measuring Euphoria

Author:Kim Basinger

“Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it.”

Long Two Water Sea Creatures Ocean Scientist Assuming Casts Repeats Usual Inches Exploring Generalization Fishy

Author:Arthur Eddington

“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.”

Long Made Water Records Feet Months Ocean Seven Fishes Beach Shore Swimming Miami

Author:Michael Stipe

“I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.”

Writing Long Kids Morning Four Ocean Wake Up Coffee Waking Going Out Gears Plugs New Music Donuts Long Drive

Author:John Feldmann

“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.”

“We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience.”

World Trying Long Stills Eye Found Middle New York Ocean Careful Following Miles Hiding Be Careful Lenses Places In The World New Experiences Miles Away Remote Places

Author:Ronda Rousey

“Being here by the ocean in Malibu. Living in this beautiful house that we built, that took so long to build. Being in my art studio, painting. Packing my bags tomorrow to go home to Kauai where we have a house. Which all sounds very grand, and I suppose it is, in some respects, but nothing comes from nothing. It all comes from hard work.”

Long Art Hard Home Beautiful House Sound Painting Hard Work Tomorrow Ocean Built Studios Bags Packing Malibu

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.”

Ifs Long Asks Practice Economic Willing Ocean Species Burden Fishing Irrational Selection

Author:Barton Seaver

“Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?”

Thinking Way Long Water Four Tears Birth Ocean My Friends Shed Again And Again Long Way

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Age Lasts Felt Chance My Own Saws Scene Ocean First Time Breaths Tongue Release Plastic Brazil Deep Breath One Chance Suffocating Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are.”

Men Years Kind Long Three Realizing Week Couple Ocean Long Time Intense Vietnam New Year Thailand Cambodia

Author:Prince Fielder

“Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.”

World Long Different Ocean Tradition Historical Chinese Tibetan

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There's something about it, I'm at peace with it.”

Long Home Growing Up Ocean

Author:Scott Eastwood

“You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.”

Knows World Long Bigs Ocean Shadow Filled Casts Accomplishment Desperate Swim Orphan Unfortunate Events Series Of Unfortunate Events Long Shadows

Author:Daniel Handler

“It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.”

Long Real Eye Dies Fall Courses Wise Alive Dying Building Ocean Died Photograph Fishes Tiny Giants Swimming Long Ago Statues Falling Down Whales

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.”

Thinking Love Should Heart Kind May Long Light Care Age Lasts Past Joy Dies Lines Dark Sea Tears Safe Ocean Eternity Presses Storm Graves Thee Shore Distress Can Not Sailing Gloom

Author:Emily Bronte

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

Long Today Moving Tree Fields Ocean Shadow Moved Distance Clouds Grass Breeze Back And Forth Moving In

Book:Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Long Whole Stories Joy Song Water Blood Sea Sorrow Ocean Singing Glory Tragedy Shame Ancient Hunger Tales Feds Twelve Shed Long Ago Unending Weaving

Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry

“As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.”

People Thinking Should Long Has Beens Enough Earth Faces Used Dies Strong Dark Mystery Moon Ocean Strong Enough Mama Back Again

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.”

Long Hard Ocean Swim Dictator

Author:Craig Ferguson

“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”

Knows Way Littles Long Made Seems Earth Stars Stuff Water Return Ocean Surface Cosmos Shore Cosmic Inviting Ankles Where We Came

Author:Carl Sagan

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

Long Stills Enough Lasts Stars Ready Ocean Cosmos Exploration Shore Cosmic Sail Wanderers

Author:Carl Sagan

“THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!”

Should Heart Long Doe Soul Self Helping Stories Light Together Energy Lost Love Is Fire Blood Ocean Love Story Torture Iron Pot Dirt Our Love Pearls Spills Boiling

Author:Rumi

“I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.”

World Littles Long Has Beens Stars Sides Sea This World Ignorance Lovers Ocean Connected Neighbor Settling Gates Hiding Prisoner Manifest Flood Concealed Ponds Drifting

Author:Rumi

“Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.”

Heart Long Guy Realizing Trouble Feet Fronts Tears Broken My Heart Ocean Chains Wet Parades My Heart Is Broken

Book:Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)

Source: Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)

“It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.”

Long Faces Sides Walks Wind Cold Ocean Spring Lows Flight Beach Canada March Tides Mist Formation Springtime Geese Lone Icy Windy Offshore Long Beach

Book:Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

Source: Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters

“Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”

May Long Feelings Might Age Parent Memories Gone Cutting Periods Bed Ocean Silent Surprise Depth Reactions Despite Preparation Grieving Mourning Long Ago Recollection Submarines

Author:Joan Didion

“Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.”

Source: Tales of Unease

“This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.”

Ifs Long Running Past Science Death Easy Ocean Economics Tasks Seasons Affair Currents Storm Guides Useless Flats Long Runs Economist Mislead Current Affairs

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.”

“I love you so much that it feels like the universe will explode, for as long as it takes for the oceans to dry up, so much that I don't care if my soul burns to ashes.”

Ifs Feels Long Soul Care Universe Love You Drama Ocean Don't Care My Soul I Don't Care Dry Ashes Love You So Much I Love You So Much Dry Up

Author:Youngjae

“Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.”

Love Years Long Soul Self Flower Self Love Kings Lovers Ocean Years Ago Stones Queens Beloved Islands Long Ago Palaces Crystals Mystic

Author:Carl Jung

“For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.”

Men Way Humans May Long Law Courses Energy Destiny Study Modern Taught Source Lessons Ocean Consequence Transformation Streams Rulers Pregnant Conservation Intertwined Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:Frederick Soddy

“For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we had a string of unusually strong hurricanes outside the boundaries of this multi-decadal cycle that is a real factor; there are scientists who point that out, and they're right, but we're exceeding those boundaries now.”

“They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.”

Thinking Way Love Needs Long Ends Done Feelings Lasts Political Desire Social Born Views Military Particular Honor Creatures Ocean Fellows Campaigns Voyages Public Life Chores

Author:Plutarch

“In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”

Source: Ronald Reagan