#atlantic

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#atlantic ocean #been #had #land #never

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' ↗

— Genie Francis

#atlantic #be kind #because #being #britney

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists! ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#awards #bell #category #element #energy

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#atlantic #atlantic ocean #i #mean #men

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#certainly #god #just #knows #millionth

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #canada #confederation #culture #decades

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#carolinas #charters #extending #given #had

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music. ↗

— David Crosby

#atlantic #because #collectors #companies #good