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Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold. -- Barnabe Barnes
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied. -- Gore Vidal
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. -- George W. Bush
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere. -- Helena Christensen
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. -- Christy Turlington
The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'. -- Asa Larsson
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. -- Richard Flanagan
My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall. -- John Dyer
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days. -- Joshua Slocum
Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. -- Richard Rogers
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known. -- Raymond Bonner
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. -- Leon Askin
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. -- Evan Davis
Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. -- Ridley Scott
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. -- Jo Nesbo
Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty. -- Nishant Agrawal
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead! -- Clive James
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that. -- Boyd Holbrook
I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful. -- Olga Kurylenko
9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years. -- Jonathan Powell
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. -- Giotto di Bondone
A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential -- Susan Jeffers
Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat. -- Laura Dekker
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. -- George W. Bush
No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. -- Charles Kennedy
Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free. -- Russell Crowe
Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore. -- Richard Ford
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. -- John Dyer
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out. -- Pamela Stephenson
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force. -- Dick Cheney
...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts. -- Catherine Martin
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold. -- Tove Jansson
Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. -- Philippe Petit
My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know. -- Swami Vivekananda
All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. -- Alfred North Whitehead
We all harbour a great sadness in our soul -- Paulo Coelho
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations -- Bryant McGill
How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine? -- Mahatma Gandhi
The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour. -- Lauren Dane
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general. -- Nan Goldin
The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses. -- Steven Pinker
One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends. -- C. S. Lewis
Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. -- Jean Paul Sartre
Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. -- Jean Paul Sartre
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. -- Richard Brautigan
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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