Waves Quotes
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Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
hugh walpole— Rogue Herries (1930), first lines.
Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
ramakrishna— p. 385 (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942))
As the moon's fair image quaketh in the raging waves of ocean. Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, moves with silent peaceful motion.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, New Spring, Prologue, No. 23.
Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves).
— Thomas Sturge Moore, "The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 42:7.
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1831Table Talk (published1835), entry for18 Dec.
Many-maned scud-thumper, tub of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub- ruster, sky-mocker, rave! portly pusher of waves, wind-slave.
John Hoyer Updike— 1960 Telephone Poles and Other Poems,'Winter Ocean'.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Chekhov— The Letter
Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and . . . fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.
archilochus— As quoted in Eclipse (1999) by James Turrell.
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
— Ramakrishna, as quoted in The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942) as translated by Swami Nikhilananda, p. 385
Love-whispering woods, and lute-resounding waves.
Alexander Pope— 1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.306.
I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication; vastly important developments in microwave technique, whereby present clumsy connecting leads between wall or floor sockets and electric devices like toasters and vacuum sweepers may become unnecessary; gigantic magnetrons and klystrons, or their successors, will generate megawatts in microwaves; living rooms and their occupants will be heated by high-frequency waves from walls or ceilings; short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously
Lee De Forest— "Dawn of the Electronic Age", Popular Mechanics, January 1952
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.
lawrence m. krauss— The Physics of Star Trek, HarperPerennial edition (1996), p. 17.
O'er seas that have no beaches To end their waves upon, I floated with twelve peaches, A sofa and a swan.
mervyn peake— Poem O'er seas that have no beaches
... memories that never ride anything but sound waves.
henry s. haskins— p. 46 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
The god looked out upon the troubled deep Waked into tumult from its placid sleep; The flame of anger kindles in his eye As the wild waves ascend the lowering sky; He lifts his head above their awful height And to the distant fleet directs his sight.
— "Translation From The Æneid, Book I" written while at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (c. 1824).
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Plutarch— Symposiacs, book viii. Question ix.
“I shall never forget the sight of that beautiful boat as she went down, the orchestra playing to the last, the lights burning until they were extinguished by the waves. It sounds so unreal, like a scene on the stage.”
steve turner— p. 152 (The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, To the Lord Viscount Forbes.
Thy braes were bonnie, Yarrow stream, When first on them I met my lover; Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow stream, When now thy waves his body cover!
— The Braes of Yarrow
The basil tuft, that waves Its fragrant blossom over graves.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), "Light of the Harem", reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 57.
Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains .
— Archilochus, Fragments.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
— Homer, The Odyssey, Book XI, line 722. Pope's translation.
When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out of the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: “Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.”
james thomson— James Thomson, Alfred: a Masque, II, V.
Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part II, Stanza 2, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520.
Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!
john gay— John Gay, To a Lady, Epistle I, line 17.
Look when the clouds are blowing And all the winds are free: In fury of their going They fall upon the sea. But though the blast is frantic, And though the tempest raves, The deep immense Atlantic Is still beneath the waves.
— Frederic William Henry Myers (1843 - 1901), "Wind, Moon and Tides".
