Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it...

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

No man may make another free.

No man may make another free.

I regret all of my books.

I regret all of my books.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...