Famous quotes containing the words blue, jay and/or creek:
“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin,his control
Stops with the shore;”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“Make a plan and you will find she has something else in mind;”
—Alan Jay Lerner (19181986)
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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