Lubber Quotes

#1. Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

Herman Melville

#2. There is a moment, just before I reach it that I consider going up through the lubber's hole because I'm wearing a dress, but I just can't do it. I go to the edge, do the flip over and land on the foretop. If anyone got a peek at my drawers, well, good for them, I hope they enjoyed it.

L.A. Meyer

#3. For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...

Vita Sackville-West

#4. He looks at you like ... like you're his favorite food.

Karina Halle

#5. This earth is your home, so love it with your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#6. That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

Taylor Mali

#7. The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Doug Aitken

#8. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke
"Is it really you?"
Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed?
The man nodded.
His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches.
It is.

Markus Zusak

#10. A different lover is not a sin

Lady Gaga

#11. Both Republicans and Democrats can agree that more choices and lower prices in transportation would benefit consumers. Democrats would consider it 'smart government' and Republicans 'limited government.'

Marvin Ammori

#12. Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

Ray Bradbury

#13. I heard her scream one night while she was sleeping.
Heard but didn't see.
When I turned, there was nothing.
No one.
Only darkness.
But I know what I heard.

Melanie A. Gabbard

#14. It's magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man's arising-that I understand ... And yet I am sorry to lose God!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

E. O. Wilson