North Pacific Whale

Famous quotes containing the words north, pacific and/or whale:

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

    “Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
    A darkening shudder; water fell away;
    The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)