North Atlantic Drift

Famous quotes containing the words north, atlantic and/or drift:

    “Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
    Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “But now they drift on the still water,
    Mysterious, beautiful;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)