Chesapeake Quotes

#1. I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777

Michael Harris

#2. Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Robert Brady

#3. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#4. Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.

James A. Michener

#5. You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

#6. New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

Jim Himes

#7. Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. BLAM! BLOOEY!
Twin thunderstorms struck Chesapeake Bay at about the same hour two weeks apart in the last spring and summer of the eighth decade of the twentieth century of the Christian era and bracketed our story like artillery zeroing in.

John Barth

#9. My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.

Bob Ehrlich

#10. Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

David Plotz

#11. with honesty there came communication,

R.J. Lewis

#12. She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or the way I sometimes got when faced with cupcakes.
Mmm. Cupcakes.

Kiersten White

#13. Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

Will Shetterly

#14. In Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

Michael Ondaatje

#15. When you dream, you can go anywhere.

J.M. Darhower

#16. You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

Billy Crystal

#17. None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

Neil Gaiman

#18. If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen

Maggie Brendan

#19. Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

Albert Schweitzer

#20. Does not the consciousness of having done some real good in your day and generation give pleasure?

Charlotte Bronte

#21. He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives.
And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

Nora Roberts

#22. Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Ray Davies

#23. I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#24. All people, whatever they are doing, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems ... it is how they need to act - from their perspective.

Nikki Sex

#25. The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands it and makes it pithy. The spirit, on the other hand, can snap like a bone and may never fully knit

Tom Robbins