Quotes with sea-fruits

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bliss Carman Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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  • Don Marquis Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Lucretius 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
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • John Florio Praise the sea; on shore remain.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • William C. Bryant Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Billy Rose Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.
    Source: Its Only a Paper Moon (1933)
    Billy Rose
    Canadian curler (1899 - 1966)
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  • Beck Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Socrates See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Ben Jonson Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bayard Taylor Shrimps and the delicate periwinkle Such are the sea-fruits lasses love: Ho! to your nets till the blue stars twinkle, And the shutterless cottages gleam above!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brendan Behan So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
    Source: Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bayard Taylor Stately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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