A Quote by Billy Nungesser

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

Billy Nungesser

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Black Come Coming Going Keep Oil Said Stay They Said Well

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Billy Nungesser
Born: January 10, 1959

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

Billy Nungesser

The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.

Nicholas Rodger

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

Theodore Sturgeon

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Drake

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Owen Feltham

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Seneca the Elder

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

Poul Anderson

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.

Richard M. Nixon

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.

Samuel Marsden

I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.

Edward Hirsch

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

George Eliot

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent Van Gogh

Someone said to me the other day: "Well, you're eventually going to live until 110." And I said: "Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100?" How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.