Quotes About Driftwood

#1. I imagined your stick, washing in the waves for hundreds of years, turning to driftwood, smooth and hard like stone. I imagined a little girl finding it on a beach so many years later. Saving it on her shelf, where she put the things that made her feel like the world was magical.

Ava Dellaira

#2. Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

George Leonard

#3. Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.

Holly Black

#4. We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

David Sarnoff

#6. High school did that to you, turned you into pieces of driftwood. and the parts of you that you tried to keep in one piece became the property of the wind and the water, sending those dear pieces everywhere you were not.

Julie Murphy

#7. I could feel my limbs disconnecting, floating nearby like driftwood on an oily lake.

Gillian Flynn

#8. A face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.

Chelsea Cain

#9. I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

Janette Rallison

#10. I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

Kevin Costner

#11. Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. Nice creepy reptile," Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. "Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.

Rick Riordan

#13. It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

T.H. White

#14. Within minutes, mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled. The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood.

Markus Zusak

#15. Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

Simon Schama

#16. City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea. Yeah, it's something, he says slowly.

Norman Mailer

#17. Hard rain after dark
we slept in a driftwood hut
ocean snored all night.

Robert Hobkirk

#18. Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice to another, becomes a driftwood - from this bank to another bank, from that bank to this bank. This is how you have been moving, down the ages, for so many lives

Rajneesh

#20. Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Matthew Arnold

#21. Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.

Edwin Arnold

#22. smack smack honey smacks its the snack that will smack you back

Adam West

#23. If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.

Jennifer Donnelly

#24. I am the Devil and I'm here to do the Devil's business.

Tex Watson

#25. If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

Dave Barry

#26. Entrusting her memory to the wind, to the embrace of the silent sentinel trees and to the care of the faithful stars, her namesake, pure and everlasting, the uncontained universe contained in her: Cassiopeia.

Rick Yancey

#27. To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

Orrin Woodward

#28. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Eli Siegel