Raffaella Barker quotes

“I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.”
-- Raffaella Barker

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“A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success.”
-- Raffaella Barker

#Keys Quotes #Hands Quotes #Happiness And Success Quotes

“Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.”
-- Raffaella Barker

#Dream Quotes #Fun Quotes #Children Quotes

“The Norfolk landscape sends a shiver through my soul.”
-- Raffaella Barker

#Soul Quotes #Landscape Quotes #Norfolk Quotes

“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”

“Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die”

“My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.”

“It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.”

“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.”

“A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.”

“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9

“If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!”

“In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.”