Oceans

Famous quotes containing the word oceans:

    “You there, I here,
    With just the door ajar
    That oceans are,
    And prayer,
    And that pale sustenance,
    Despair!”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    “It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world—it’s the American way of looking at things.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.”
    —Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927)