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"Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man." »Mary Lyon
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"Life is a progress, and not a station." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust
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"Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." »Margaret Lee Runbeck
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"On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford
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"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." »Joey Bishop
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky." »Edgar Albert Guest
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"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." »Steven Wright
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"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." »Dale Carnegie
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end." »William Shakespeare
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." »Andr Gide
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"Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." »David Assael
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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." »Andr Gide
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"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors." »Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." »Andre Gide
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"Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell." »Willmott
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"I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!" »Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
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"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it." »Diana Nyad
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"There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs." »Diana Nyad
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"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory." »Alan Alda
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"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more." »George Gordon Byron
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"While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives." »Goldsmith
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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Ashley Montagu
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me." »Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph
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