“Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“Wave after wave
Will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide
Will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on
As it was…
-- Natural Science (1980)”
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Will flow with the tide
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Will flow and recede
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Turning the tide, you know you are nobody's slave.”
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“There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
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“A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
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“The tide of war dose not recede just be cause we wish it to.”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
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“Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
Context: Mother, though my song's measure is like your surf-beat's ancient rhythm I never learned it of you.
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
“Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.”
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 6, The Biological View
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899–1999) British judge
Introduction to The European Court of Justice: Judges or Policy Makers? (London: Bruges Group, 1990).
Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 41 (p. 409)