Storm Surge Barrier

Famous quotes containing the words storm, surge and/or barrier:

“I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“We have had enough of action, and of motion we,
Rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard, when the surge was seething
free,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.”
—Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902)