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- Nov 07, 2020
Adrift Quotes
Finding footing when nothing feels solid.
These adrift quotes explore losing a sense of family after loss, alongside historical explorers literally cast adrift on unfamiliar waters. See related reflections in our Beginning quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
- Confused
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- Nov 07, 2020