Verrazano Narrows Quotes & Sayings

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk. — Marilynne Robinson

Rumo!" said Rumo.
"That's right!" Smyke exclaimed. "You Rumo, me Smyke."
"You Rumo, me Smyke." Rumo repeated eagerly.
"No, no." Smyke chuckled. — Walter Moers

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run. — Dana Carvey

Past the projects, the land opened up and water came into view. The breeze carried rain and salt. Jetties and barrier walls supported the shore, which was stacked with crumbling brick warehouses. Out in the channel, the Statue of Liberty stood alone on her little island, her corroding flame held high in the air as the sun set over the industrial shoreline and skyways of New Jersey. Across the narrows, the bluffs of Staten Island wavered in the smoky light of dusk that turned the Verrazano into bronze. Faint light burnished water into busy with freighters and tug boats. A lone sail boat flitted in the distance. On the near shore, on a slip of water between a jetty and the land, a blood red barge bobbed on the tide. — Andrew Cotto

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were. — Greg McKeown

The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced! — Friedrich Nietzsche