| President John F. Kennedy had a plaque on his desk given to him by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who gave one like it to the commanding officer of each new Polaris submarine. It read: O' God, Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small. -- Prayer of Breton fishermen |
| The storm is over, the land hushes to rest; the tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, is fallen back in the west. -- Robert Bridges |
| Least Alone |
| For all that has been said of the love professed for it, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most, it's been an accomplice of his restlessness. -- Joseph Conrad |
| In solitude...where we are least alone. -- Lord Byron |
| This grand show is eternal, it is always sunrise somewhere. -- John Muir |
| I hate to be near the sea when it's roaring and raging; it puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, always struggling...and ending just where it began. -- William Hazlitt |
| Nights of storm, days of mist, sad days when the sun shone in vain; old griefs and griefs not yet begun. -- Edward Thomas |
| As for courage and will, we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry us through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton |
| My experience of being at sea is that one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it. -- Malcolm Bradbury |
| Turn your wounds into wisdom. -- Oprah Winfrey |
| Hope is a strange invention, a patent of the heart, In unremitting action, yet never wearing out. -- Emily Dickinson |
| Music: Lost in the Fifties Friday's Journal Whispers - Home Old New Orleans The photos on this page are courtesy of Kepguru. |
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