John F. Kennedy
Politician
"The rising tide lifts all the boats."
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Tides
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Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise."
Tom Hanks
Actor, Producer
"I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
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"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime."
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"In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side."
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"My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back."
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"For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide."
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"We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned."
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"The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried."
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"Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!"
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"In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side"
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"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever."
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"Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy."
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"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of."
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"Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?"
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"Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun."
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"The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away."
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"It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens."
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"For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one."
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"Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons."
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"Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct."
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"Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides."
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"Pity swells the tide of love."
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