Top 22 Quotes About New York Harbor
#1. The Asia had sixty-four heavy guns. For weeks it roamed the waters of New York Harbor, its weapons pointed at the city, looking something like an Imperial Destroyer from Star Wars. To stand
Jeff Wilser
#2. Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.
David Souter
#3. There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.
Charles Krauthammer
#4. My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff
#5. that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor
Sarah Vowell
#6. Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.
Rick Riordan
#7. The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
Edward St. Aubyn
#8. one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.
David Lagercrantz
#9. As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
C.J. Box
#10. I feel like you're trying to convince me that we don't need condoms, but fuck that. If you impregnate me, I'm going to devour " you like a praying mantis." I pin Zeph against the wall and kiss her hard, because her threatening to kill or mutilate me is always so hot.
Gisele Walko
#11. Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.
Daryn Kagan
#12. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
Nancy Willard
#14. Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.
Spencer W. Kimball
#15. When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
[When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]
George Herbert
#16. Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.
Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
#17. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers
David McCullough
#18. You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
#19. I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
Joel Sternfeld
#20. But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
Noah Taylor
#21. Next time you hear that tone of self-regard, you might like to pick up Dispatches for the New York Tribune and read the only reporter of whom it was ever actually true.
Christopher Hitchens
#22. The world belongs to the articulate.
Edwin Land
