Tide

Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

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Famous quotes containing the word tide:

    “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 (1564–1616)

    “O passionately at peace when will that tide draw shoreward,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “The sea is calm to-night.
    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    Upon the straits;—”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)