Rockaways Quotes

#1. From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Frances Beinecke

#2. He's close enough to touch and too far away to reach.

Sarah Noffke

#3. I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

Billy Koch

#4. I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

Glenn Ford

#5. When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes ... for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

Denise Linn

#6. I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died ... every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Omar N. Bradley

#7. Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

#8. The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.

Germaine Greer

#9. Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

Richard DeVos

#10. The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

Bradford Cox

#11. The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Robert Metcalfe

#12. Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Barbara Weeks

#13. Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

Anne Graham Lotz

#14. A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

John Millington Synge

#15. Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.

Alice Walker

#16. I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

Agatha Christie