Over Swept From The Sea Quotes

#1. [T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Howard Nemerov

#2. There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

Sara Teasdale

#3. ... I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not,' laughed Mrs. Jo ...

Louisa May Alcott

#4. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

#5. Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.

Christine Feehan

#6. The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other.

Kirsten Hubbard

#7. If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!

Mitch Hedberg

#8. Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.

Marty Rubin

#9. You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

James M. Barrie

#10. We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

William J. Clinton

#11. The sea was no stranger to the rock on the beach. The sea came often to the rock, rushing up wetly against its warm grey, and always as it swept away it took an infinitesimal part of the rock with it. The rock had known the waves for a long time, and learned it was in its nature to erode.

Chew Chia Shao Wei

#12. Startled, I accidently knock over my inkwell. A black tsunami of ink sprawls out across the page, engulfing the tiny village of my words. They are swept away into the midnight sea. Gone forever. I am bereft.

Danger Slater

#13. On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

George Grey

#14. A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

James Patterson

#15. The day was cold, and every time the little transparent fans of water swept in and drew back, the wet sand mirrored a clear sky and the sun on its way down.

Gina Berriault

#16. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Sri Aurobindo

#17. A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

Tariq Ali

#18. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain ... There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

Chief Seattle

#19. I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.

Paula McLain

#20. Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.

Mao Tse-tung

#21. But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

Jack Kerouac

#22. Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine

#23. 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

#24. What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#25. The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

G. Campbell Morgan

#26. Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Dave Ramsey

#27. ... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.

Ernest Hemingway,

#28. The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity.

George R R Martin

#29. This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof we got the name of Mortimer,
Will I advance upon these castle-walls.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,
And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!

Christopher Marlowe