Famous quotes containing the words red, sea and/or species:
“He gives the impression of a strong mind which is composed and wise. His brown eye is exceedingly kindly and gentle. A child would like to sit in his lap and a dog would sidle up to him. It is difficult to associate his personality and this impression of kindness and gentle simplicity with what has occurred here in connection with these purges and shootings of the Red Army generals, and so forth.”
—Joseph Davies (18761958)
“The Sea Tiger was built to fight. She deserves a better epitaph than Commissioned 1940. Sank 1941. Engagements, none. Shots fired, none. Now you cant let her go that way. Thats like a beautiful woman dying an old maid.”
—Stanley Shapiro (19251990)
“Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)