21 Harbour Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free. Russell Crowe

Best Sunshine Free Living Ease About Beach Australia Harbour Things Sydney

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. Richard Flanagan

Political National Would Would-Be More Drown Drowned Question Off Tragedy Australian Australians Refugees Harbour Coast Sydney

Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. Ridley Scott

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft. Amanda Foreman

Husband Hong Kong Way Some Wrecked Something Mary Foot Had Drowned Hours She Felt Island Kong Bloated Accompanied Arriving Families Hugh After Boat Land Bodies Harbour Avoid Her Soft

I'm not a Bal Harbour Shops kind of guy. Bobby Berk

Kind Guy Shops Harbour

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views. Evan Davis

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo

Architecture Water Edge Changed Visit Admire Boring See Cosmopolitan Rather More New Town Until House Opera Opera House Tall Go Lot Ships Modern Eighties Much Harbour Now Downtown Oslo Museum

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. John Dyer

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out. John Hillcoat

Circumstances Out Capacity Certain Harbour Violence

We should continue all the time to look out for those who have less, to stand for those who can't, to reach out across differences, to use our land intelligently, to open our borders and welcome those who seek harbour, and never, ever cease to be curious, ask questions, and to explore and search. Julie Payette

Time Welcome Differences Our Those Out Borders Seek Never Open Reach Look Continue Cease Questions Curious Land Ask Should Across Explore Stand Use Harbour Less Who Search Ever

Africa is the one place on earth where Prince Harry can be truly himself. He describes Botswana as his 'second home,' but this magical country is even more than that - it is his haven, his safe harbour. Penny Junor

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs. Philippe Petit

World Police Nothing Station High Easy Structure Devices Feet Police Station Trade Access Dogs End Very End Of The World Middle Center Public Harbour Notre Dame Electronic Bridge Sydney World Trade World Trade Center Night Dame

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. Richard Rogers

These nations, in which U.N. designated terrorists roam freely, lead processions, and deliver their poisonous sermons of hate with impunity, are as culpable as the very terrorists they harbour. Such countries should have no place in the comity of nations. Sushma Swaraj

Hate Deliver Lead Poisonous Roam Countries Freely Terrorists Very Impunity Nations Place Which Should Harbour Sermons

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold. Tove Jansson

Christmas Morning Dark Walk Looking Big Every Christmas Tree Tree Setting Cold Other Trees Spend Must Bought Town Hours Because Always End Up Branch Get Six Just Harbour Choosing Daddy Right Buying

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