Wharf Rat Quotes

#1. The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there.

Dave Barry

#3. Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Max Aitken

#4. Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

Chris Howard

#5. In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

Bill Harley

#6. I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.

Elizabeth Wein

#7. From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Natasha Trethewey

#8. A miracle happened. Right there and then, in amongst the lunchtime diners and tourists, with the sweeping views of San Francisco Bay outside the window and the sea lions making a racket on the wharf below, a miracle happened. And Samuel lost any hope of recovery. Lily laughed.

Lexxie Couper

#9. The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Walter Ulbricht

#10. The Wharf Street part stood out for a different reason. She

Lindsay Buroker

#11. Let people move themselves. Don't insist on doing it for them.

Joseph R. Myers

#12. Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

Tony Judt

#13. I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.

Colman Domingo

#14. It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

Betty Dodson

#15. This is the true reason, that my dear Jenny and I, as well as all the world besides us, have such eternal squabbles about nothing. - She looks at her outside, - I, at her in - . How is it possible we should agree about her value?

Anonymous

#16. We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

Bjorn Lomborg

#17. He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

Janet Morris

#18. One has to be suspicious of anyone who seeks the limelight.

Marty Rubin

#19. As he left Chinatown behind, Alan thought of the woman he'd seen on the wharf the other day, the golden splendor of her gown, her glossy hair and the turbulent emotion in her eyes. He wondered what she was doing right now and if she'd found happiness in her new home.

Bonnie Dee

#20. His words burn like acid.

Karen Maitland

#21. Revenge wouldn't drive her. But questions. Yes, questions would.

Brandon Sanderson