Tide

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tide:

    “Oh, may the tide be soon enough at high
    To keep our abstract verse from being dry.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
    While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
    Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
    Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    “The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)