J. C. Squire Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson
-
I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
Nathan Outteridge
-
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois
-
I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
Laura Dekker
-
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
-
I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.
Hannah Mills
-
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.
E. B. White
-
Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.
J. R. R. Tolkien
-
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert
-
Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Emily Bronte
-
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
Larry Hagman
-
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
J. C. Squire