
Top 13 Leave Shore Quotes
#1. If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.
Winston Churchill
#2. He combed his hair like Elvis and had a slightly dangerous look, like a sailor two drinks into a shore leave that will end badly.
Stephen King
#3. Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
#4. They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
Khaled Hosseini
#5. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Rose George
#6. Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.
John Ruskin
#7. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!
Walt Whitman
#8. If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
Pablo Neruda
#9. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die
neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
E. M. Forster
#10. Her hair was copper-red, like the grass of the shore on which the spring floods leave their rust; but her eyes were dark, like the pools among the marshes, drawing the beholder down into their depths, and their surface was still as bog-water.
Aino Kallas
#11. [Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.
Epictetus
#12. Across a world where all men grieve
And grieving strive the more,
The great days range like tides and leave
Our dead on every shore.
Rudyard Kipling
#13. Our bodies were trash.
We leave them on the shore.
Anne Sexton
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