Tide Quotes

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

~ Munia Khan

Souls of love breathlessly sailTowards our time when hours failTo cope with longing here we areChasing the speed of a falling starMiles and miles fleetly we goDown to the ocean, deeper the flowWaves now know their crushing tide Splashing between joy and pride

~ Munia Khan

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

~ Craig Groeschel

things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.

~ Michelle Cuevas

I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me

~ Laurie Matthew

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

~ Nicholas Sparks

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

~ Matthew Arnold

When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

~ Dixie Waters

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Side by side we'll fight the tide,That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand,Even as we drown.

~ Kelly Creagh

The moon makes love to the ocean and in this holy conception it gives birth to a little tide.

~ A.p. Sweet

You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all

~ Munia Khan

RECURRENT CURRENTSLike the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional ripKamil Ali

~ Kamil Ali

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

~ Nikola Tesla

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

~ Christopher Columbus

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

~ Diane Abbott

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

~ Jesse Ventura

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

~ William Shakespeare

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

~ Prem Rawat