Shore Quotations

The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended Americas inalienable right to life, it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.

Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

Whether or not this hurricane hits shore in Florida, we're going to have storm surges in the coastal areas. We're going to have high winds, hurricane force winds in some cases. People should not be complacent about this.

Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have experiments under way, but you can grow everything on the Eastern Shore and we're very encouraged by whites.

We've got businesses on the North Shore who have seen 30 per cent property tax increases on top of 40 per cent the year before and 30 per cent the year before that, then you're hitting them with another basically property tax. . . . It's just the straw that broke the camel's back, it's too much.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

cause down the shore everything's all right

There is a red sandy beach in the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia that is unlike any other shore landscape I have ever seen. The world's highest tides wash its shores, and the soft cliffs of Blomidon Provincial Park are constantly crumbling away; whole trees will occasionally slide down to the sea to decay slowly in the wind and brine.

We had no idea this was going to occur. But Eric pitched 14 games last year and hadn't pitched in the second half, so we're all smart enough to know you don't know what he's got. He gave me no indication anything was wrong. We made the trade to shore up the bullpen and provide a little bit of security in case something like this happened.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

There are lots of questions whether this (pension overhaul effort) will help shore up funding in pension plans, or if some of the reforms are so expensive they'll drive companies out of the system.

Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.

Much of the Marine Corps equipment was purchased with the prospect of a shore assault in mind.

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time

Obviously, we have to learn to play with leads. This is twice we gave up four- or five-run leads. We need to shore up the defense. We are not making outs when we should.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

My sense is that the market is responding to the possibility that a meaningful economic stimulus package will be in place soon that will at least shore up some of the shortfall in capital spending,

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

I'm a little concerned about the defense. Our defense needs to shore itself up.

Given the damage that just one oil spill or wrecked rig could do to shore communities that are heavily dependent on clean beach and ocean environments, it seems to me that undoing coastal moratoria is simply not worth it,

Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health on sea nor shore shall fail.

He'd row to shore every 2-3 hours to rest for a short stretch. That's when his legs would nearly give out on him. But once he got the blood flowing again, he was back on the river, rowing as hard as ever.

Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore

There is huge demand for waterfront homes. Right now, if you look at the Florida coast, the Jersey shore you see second-home buying driving appreciation.

There is an extensive sand plain extending as far as the eye can see in the vicinity of the drop location. The slope is very shallow and essentially appears flat when you're down there. While the bottom is sand, showing ripples from long shore currents, it is by no means devoid of life. On the contrary, it appeared to be a very productive sand community undoubtedly with lots of mollusks and crustaceans.

I was like, come on do it for New Jersey. I saw her kick and knew she was going to keep it going. I was thinking that would be incredible, having two Shore Conference girls winning Penn Relays titles.

I would use the word alarming. We're a team that practices very well and hard, and we pass the ball well, and we've shown we can rebound. Through nine games, we all have to take a hard look at what we need to do to shore that up. If we could shore that up, we'd have a terrific team.

It is a fallacy that a broker needs to shore up any real estate transaction engaged in by two people. A simple attorney for a purchase-and-sale review is all you need, and a home inspection.

I think the bear spotted the fish and decided it would be a good meal. When we first saw him, he was on the shore about 10 feet from the fish.

I thought we played hard. But South Shore played hard too. Give them credit. They were able to play their style of basketball and take control of the game in the paint. They killed us on the boards ,and that was the difference in the game.

I think we're coming around just fine, and we'll use this week to find out what we need to shore up.

I think that's the fourth time this season we've held somebody under 60 points. Defensively, we did a good job holding them down. Offensively, we can score enough to win against anybody, but we have to shore up our rebounding.

I think there's still a lot of investors -- particularly the shorter-term investors -- who are looking to sell strength. They're trying to shore up their accounts by selling strength in this market. They've just had a lot of problems and they were obviously some hurting portfolios, if you will, based upon the declines that we saw for March and for May.

I think enterprise is an area they need to shore up. They've had a lot of change there. And I don't know how you keep the train running when you've got churn throughout the organization like that.

Our guys needed to be taught why we were losing, what was causing them to lose. I wanted them to see this is what we're giving up, and we're losing in overtime, we're losing by two or three points. Imagine if we shore this up, how good we can be.

Road or home, it becomes this simple: Our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be. We've tried to address that in ways, tried to change it, but it eventually comes down to you being able to take care of your man, and we've struggled with that too long. We've got to shore up our defense.

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

My Husband Lord dwells on this shore, and on the shore beyond; I would still meet Him, and hug Him close in my embrace.

I'm sure after the Shore Conference (Tournament), everyone thought we were a joke. We take things for granted a lot of times. I think we do better as underdogs.

The arrests were timed to shore up Serbia's position ahead of the Kosovo talks, show they are dealing with the crimes.

The assumption is that a lot of the problems that we're seeing in the semiconductor industry now are related to the economy, and any move by Greenspan to shore up the economic situation we're seeing is going to be very beneficial.

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

We have to keep plugging along and try to improve our club. I like our nine players on the field a whole bunch. The areas we have to shore up are the front end of our rotation and the back end of the bullpen. Those are the areas we're concentrating on. We're certainly working at it.

We had opportunities to score runs early, but we didn't do it. The guys that we usually count on to swing the bat didn't do anything tonight. Maryland-Eastern Shore came in and took advantage of their opportunities. They did what they had to do. We have to play better than we did tonight.

We need to find out more about how stripers live. Stripers came close to the brink of extinction 25 years ago. Other species are still in trouble. Rutgers is leading the effort along the Jersey Shore to study our fisheries. I hope Net Free steers clear of nets and won't end up on a dinner table. We have something to learn form Net Free and the other tagged fish.

We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game.

We're a team that needs to improve. That's what we know we are. We're a team that isn't satisfied with where we're at. We're a team that makes too many mistakes on defense and we need to shore that up.

The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.

We don't have to shore (the company) up. That debt is wiped out, ... Our shareholder value is about $500 million and we have almost no debt. So this transaction is not a financial burden to us.

We worked very hard to shore up the defense. The offense made a lot of progress. It felt like we had a good chance to compete.

The delivery of the iron far off shore was stealthy (out of contact with surface waters).

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

We should shore up the program, but we don't need to destroy it in order to save it.

We've been doing whatever we can to shore ourselves up. Matt's had some pretty good years and we hope he can come over here and rejuvenate our offense.

We've been doing whatever we can to shore ourselves up, ... Matt's had some pretty good years and we hope he can come over here and rejuvenate our offense.

We are working hard to shore up the defensive end. Will Clark had been to state the last two years in the hitting derby and we have gone and watched him and the games. We have seen what it takes to get there and hopefully we are going to take it to the next step. We were one game away last year and are pretty motivated to get there.

We conceded two late goals at East Fife last week so we must shore the leaks up at the back because going forward we are doing ok.

When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

We barely won the last two games (at home against Maryland Eastern Shore and Howard), so we are definitely not satisfied. Everyone in the locker room feels that we should be winning by larger margins.

There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it's a real local sort of a place and once you're in that sort of ohana, or that family, everybody kind of looks out for each other.

Two-thirds of the crew was allowed to go to the shore because they had weekend passes. The only ones aboard were those who had the duty.

But other sightings were of smaller, or very injured squids washed toward the shore -- or of parts of a giant squid. This is the first time a full-grown, healthy squid has been sighted in its natural environment in deep water.

To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

We had a good week. We're 7-7 now, and we got a chance to get a lot of games in with nice weather. I think this is the strongest up and down lineup we've ever had. Defensively we gave up a lot of unearned runs. We're trying people in new positions, and it was the first time outside. In the next two weeks we'll try to shore up the defense.

Those three losses, to be honest, I felt pretty encouraged. I just didn't want our guys to get down. I wanted them to see 'Hey listen, this is what we're giving up, and we're losing in overtime and losing by 2 to 3 points. Imagine if we shore this up, how good we can be.' That was kind of the message I tried to give them during that time.

We kind of traded errors with them. We need to shore up our defense a little, but all-in-all, it was a good game against a good team.

You have to look at the trend, not weekly data. One cargo hits the shore and can skew the numbers by 5 to 7 million barrels.

What George Bush wanted to do politically was shore up his support in the black community.

We're paying for some of the sins of the past. But we have made great strides, and some of that hard work is going to show up in the coming years. And we also have some ideas in place to shore up short-term business as well.

We had the number-one offense with over 300 points, but we also had the worst defense. We're hoping we can shore up the defense, maintain that high level of play on offense, and we'll be competitive with anyone.

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

We figured they'd come out and try to run the option on us. We knew we had to shore up our assignments on that and shut down their running game. We knew once we did that, we had a pretty good chance.

Today's so-called 'Freedom Walk' sponsored by the Pentagon is a cynical exercise in an effort to shore up sagging support for the president and his war policy in Iraq .

We didn't have the edge we needed tonight. They shot 50 percent from the floor. We need to shore up our defense right now going into the final few games of the season.

We are going to be very careful and selective on the number of matches we play against India, especially at off shore venues.

We like to put this meet against Toms River North on the same week as the Shore Conference meet. We don't mind coming here. It is a very nice facility and it has electronic timing.

Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flowthere is no ferry waiting on the shore of rockand no man holding a long oar,ready to take your last coin.This is the real earth and the real water it contains.

Between the dark lakes where the dark rivers flow there is no ferry waiting on the shore of rock and no man holding a long oar, ready to take your last coin. This is the real earth and the real water it contains.

Every defensive possession we value because that's an opportunity for them to score. At that point in the game, they were manhandling us on the defensive end and some people had to shore things up.

did what he has to do in this speech and in the ones that will follow in the next weeks, which is to shore up American support, to remind the American people why we must win this battle against the terrorists.

An edge like along the north shore of the main harbor is a highway for big fish, ... You don't catch a lot of them when you set up on a spot like that, but if you set there an hour or two on a good, moving tide, you're likely to get a fish over 30 inches.

The waves are taking me farther away from the shore and I'm getting real scared.

The water right now on the Windward and North Shore is really not the place to be.