Latitudes Quotes

• As a general rule, the variety of life is most impoverished at the poles and richest at low latitudes.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Latitudes

• "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the Lord," the Captain made a little bow, "to break up hearts of oak, whether they're in brigs or buzzums."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Drove
  • Buzzums

• ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Minds
  • Afterwards
  • Latitudes

• The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Race
  • Lights
  • Latitudes