Atlantic City Sea

Famous quotes containing the words atlantic city, atlantic, city and/or sea:

    “vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
    picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
    —Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)

    “Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “In tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;Mnevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)