Faced Storm Petrel

Famous quotes containing the words faced, storm and/or petrel:

    “As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do—I just did it.”
    —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    “Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
    The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
    The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
    Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)