South Sea Islanders

Famous quotes containing the words south and/or sea:

    “Returned this day, the south wind searches,
    And finds young pines and budding birches;
    But finds not the budding man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “All are delectable. Sweet sweet sweet
    But resign this land at the end, resign it
    To its true owner, the tough one, the sea gull.
    The palaver is finished.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)