Quotes with harbor

  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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  • John A. Shedd A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
    John A. Shedd
    American author and professor
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Dubcek After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Cockburn All the diamonds in this world
    That mean anything to me
    Are conjured up
    by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
    I ran aground in a harbor town
    Lost the taste for being free
    Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
    To carry me to sea...
    Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Barney Ross Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Seneca If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Shuster It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Seneca Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Burt Bacharach Somewhere there's a happy harbor
    far from the storm.
    Out where the sun shines there is someone
    I'm meant to adore,
    and I know the day I find her,
    I'll smile once more.
    Song Nikki
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sandburg The fog comes
    on little cat feet.
    It sits looking
    over the harbor and city
    on silent haunches, and then moves on.
    Fog (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Ben Jonson Underneath this stone doth lie
    As much beauty as could die;
    Which in life did harbor give
    To more virtue than doth live.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Barney Ross We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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