Slide Mountain Ocean

Famous quotes containing the words slide, mountain and/or ocean:

    George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up a ladder to save the trouble of preparing a drop for him. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I am not used to this business. Shall I jump off or slide off?” He was told to jump.
    —For the State of Montana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    The mountain throws a shadow,
    Thin is the moon’s horn;
    What did we remember
    Under the ragged thorn?
    Dread has followed longing,
    And our hearts are torn.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
    As I wended the shores I know,
    As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)