Famous quotes containing the words read, sea, shore and/or duty:
“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn’t got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
“... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone’s eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)