Waves Quotes

• The noise is so loud that birds, waves, and people are silenced by the frantic roar of morons screaming and tearing back and forth, back and forth, devastating the peace of a quiet day at the beach and the joy of fellow boatmen on the water.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Peace
  • Water

• Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • She
  • Memories

• The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Come as the winds come, whenForests are rended,Come as the waves come, whenNavies are stranded.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Waves

• Surfing is definitely something I used to do a lot more before I was working, but I know the waves will always be there, and it's something that, when I'm not traveling as much, I'll definitely get back into.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Waves
  • Surfing

• I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Waves

• You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Sweet
  • Waves

• All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • America
  • Waves

• All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Need
  • Waves
  • Buzz

• Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Beautiful
  • California
  • Waves

• I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

  

  J Balvin
  • Waves

• I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Water

• Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • High
  • Interesting

• My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

  

  Dick York
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Waves

• I like to be a part of shows that are trying to make waves and changes.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Trying
  • Waves

• I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Up
  • Art
  • May

• I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Up
  • Forever
  • Sad

• Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Today
  • Man
  • Learning

• Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • May
  • Night
  • Anger

• Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Waves
  • Waters
  • Rider

• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Waves

• We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

  

  Mary Landrieu
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

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