Quotations
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«I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.»
Author: James Elroy Flecker
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asleep, ships, Swans, The Swan, The Village, tyre, village
«Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .»
«The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.»
«Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at sea, face up, go back, sailing, ships
«Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crossed, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, doomed, dooms, each other, had, in passing, in two ways, I Pass, I Say No, made, pass, passes out, pass out, said, shipped, shipping, ships, sign, signing, sign in, sign of the cross, sign on, sign over, sign up, storm, storming, word
«I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
acres, an orange, castles, Disneyland, flat, Groves, In a Grove, orange tree, rocket, rockets, ships, site, sites, The Rocket, walnut, walnut tree