Famous quotes containing the words pacific, ridge, records, presents and/or tribute:
“The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“The light passes
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, but intellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.”
—W.N.P. Barbellion (18891919)
“To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I cant help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.”
—Anne Cassidy. Every Child Should Have a Father But...., McCalls (March 1985)