Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"Believe that a further shore is reachable from here."
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Shore
38 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bruce Springsteen
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"cause down the shore everything's all right"
Nick Drake
Musician
"Time has told me not to ask for more, someday our ocean will find its shore."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"The Japanese have hit the shores like dead fish. They're just like dead fish washing up on the shores."
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"wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise."
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"A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other."
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"It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores"
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"A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that."
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"This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite."
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"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
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"And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes."
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"The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
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"To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore."
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"A cat will never drown if she sees the shore."
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"A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head."
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"Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique."
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"a wild dedication of yourselves To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!"
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"Pray to God, but row towards shore."
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