Wharves Quotes

#1. The warehouse was a part of the wharves down at the lakeside, and even the chill waters of Lake Michigan were warmer than usual. They filled the air with more than the average water-scent of mud and mildew and eau de dead fishy.

Jim Butcher

#2. The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#4. To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

Melanie McGrath

#5. CITY OF THE WORLD (FOR ALL RACES ARE HERE, ALL THE LANDS OF THE EARTH MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS HERE), CITY OF THE SEA! CITY OF WHARVES AND STORES - CITY OF TALL FACADES OF MARBLE AND IRON! PROUD AND PASSIONATE CITY - METTLESOME, MAD, EXTRAVAGANT CITY!

Walt Whitman

#6. You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it.

Jenny Han

#7. Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Vidya Balan

#8. The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

June Allyson

#9. What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.
To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.
Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.

Nenia Campbell

#10. Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

Robert Frost

#11. I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Dan Brown

#12. I wanted, but I refused to take.
Now I resent, what I do not have.

Sarah Ann Walker

#13. You must make time daily for your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual development.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

Joanne Whalley

#15. Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do ... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu

Shinobu Ohtaka

#16. One of his hands finds its way through the expensive implanted follicles of hair that line his forehead.

Colleen Hoover

#17. Tarryton did so, but not before saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Billington came up to scratch on this gel."
"Billington, Farnsworth, and a few others," Alex said with his most affable smile.
"Ashbourne?" Dunford's voice was colder than ice.
"Dunford?"
"Shut up.

Julia Quinn