"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land."

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Source : Quoted in Richard Hakluyt, Third and Last Volume of the Voyages (1600).

Humphrey Gilbert

#Sea Quotes #Land Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.”
“It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.”
“Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box.”
“Thatâ€™s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. Thatâ€™s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”
“I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.”
“By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.”
“The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.”
“I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.”

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