Pacific Gray Whale

Famous quotes containing the words pacific, gray and/or whale:

“Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But I’ll do my best a gude wife ay to be,
For auld Robin Gray he is kind unto me.”
—Lady Anne Lindsay (1750–1825)

“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)