Quotes about docks (15 Quotes)




    Believe it or not, windy weather can improve fresh water fishing. Fish can't see anglers as well when surface waters are chopped up by the wind. The big fish are going to hang around bridges and docks and places where they can ambush baitfish.

    Governments, like docks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined also. Therefore governments depend upon men rather then men upon governments.




    I can't disclose the name of the company yet, but if all goes to plan it hopes to be up and running by the end of March. We have identified a site fairly close to the fish docks.

    In essence, we gave them a free ride for all of 2005 and asked them to come up with a plan to cover the cost of the building. We did not buy the property with plans to use it right away when they could not come up with a plan, we offered free use of the loading docks to continue distributing food. ... But to cover the costs of carrying that operation, we need to rent out the front of the building.


    Dock's a different man now. He plays at a very high level now. He has bought into everything and he's playing explosively. At 345 pounds, you need to knock people around.


    People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

    the bays wilderness character makes it a favorite destination of Juneaus residents for camping, boating, fishing, bird watching, kayaking, whale watching, and many other recreational activities. Berners Bay contributes enormously to Juneaus quality of life. This mine, with its docks and vessel traffic, puts the bays wildlife at risk, and will severely impact the recreational uses of the area. Its the first step in turning Berners Bay into an industrial zone.

    Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,
    Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,
    Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,
    Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas
    The darnel, hemlock, and rank fumitory,
    Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts
    That should deracinate such savagery;
    The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth
    The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,
    Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,
    Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems
    But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
    Losing both beauty and utility.

    The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munitions plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.



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