North Atlantic Drift

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

    “The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

    “The Moon’s the North Wind’s cooky,”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “There was not a tree as far as we could see, and that was many miles each way, the general level of the upland being about the same everywhere. Even from the Atlantic side we overlooked the Bay, and saw to Manomet Point in Plymouth, and better from that side because it was the highest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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