Sea Quotes
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And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. (Quote by - Robert Treat Paine)
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. (Quote by - Jules Verne)
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. (Quote by - Hunter S. Thompson)
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. (Quote by - William Cowper)
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now. (Quote by - Trent Reznor)
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers. (Quote by - George Cuvier)
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise. (Quote by - John James Audubon)
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. (Quote by - William Taylor)
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. (Quote by - John Millington Synge)
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. (Quote by - Douglas Bader)
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. (Quote by - Jack Adams)
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (Quote by - John Archibald Wheeler)
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. (Quote by - Isak Dinesen)
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. (Quote by - Gamal Abdel Nasser)
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures. (Quote by - Steven Brust)
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. (Quote by - Edward Forbes)
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. (Quote by - Lewis Hallam)
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that. (Quote by - Steven Chu)
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. (Quote by - Nils-Axel Morner)
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. (Quote by - Thomas R. Marshall)
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. (Quote by - Robert D. Ballard)
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. (Quote by - Anne Sexton)
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. (Quote by - Ruth Park)
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. (Quote by - Virgil)
The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements. (Quote by - Gerd von Rundstedt)
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. (Quote by - Federico Garcia Lorca)
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. (Quote by - Robert McChesney)
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. (Quote by - Frank Yerby)
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. (Quote by - Patricia Cornwell)
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. (Quote by - William Halsey)
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. (Quote by - James Theodore Bent)
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.' (Quote by - Jessica Simpson)
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.'' (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The sea hath fish for every man. (Quote by - William Camden)
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. (Quote by - William Falconer)
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. (Quote by - King Solomon)
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30. (Quote by - Steve Odland)
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape. (Quote by - William Stafford)
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (Quote by - John Keats)
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. (Quote by - Joshua Slocum)
The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way. (Quote by - Thomas John Barnardo)
I think the concept of the sea is very important. (Quote by - Alejandro Amenabar)
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea. (Quote by - John C. Reilly)
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. (Quote by - George Byron)
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. (Quote by - John Lubbock)
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. (Quote by - Chanakya)
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. (Quote by - Lawrence Hargrave)
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. (Quote by - Henry B. Adams)
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)
Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. (Quote by - Robert Falcon Scott)
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. (Quote by - Amos Oz)
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. (Quote by - Larry Niven)
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. (Quote by - Hermann Broch)
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. (Quote by - Barbara Tuchman)
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. (Quote by - Mikhail Lermontov)
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. (Quote by - Humphrey Gilbert)
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. (Quote by - James Theodore Bent)
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (Quote by - John Updike)
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. (Quote by - Nina Simone)
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy. (Quote by - Tim Vine)
I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it. (Quote by - William M. Thomas)
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled. (Quote by - H. M. Tomlinson)
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. (Quote by - Richard Attenborough)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! (Quote by - William Booth)
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. (Quote by - Richard Burton)
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. (Quote by - Peter Benchley)
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. (Quote by - William Golding)
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. (Quote by - William Osler)
I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)
As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness! (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. (Quote by - John Milton)
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. (Quote by - Alvar N. C. de Vaca)
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. (Quote by - Frank Gaffney)
More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air. (Quote by - Nick Lampson)
It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special. (Quote by - Sarah Chalke)
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that! (Quote by - Eleonora Duse)
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. (Quote by - Vivien Leigh)
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. (Quote by - Graeme Le Saux)
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. (Quote by - Simone Schwarz-Bart)
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name. (Quote by - Adela Florence Nicolson)
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. (Quote by - Nikolai Gogol)
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years. (Quote by - Nils-Axel Morner)
When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. (Quote by - Fritz Sauckel)
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Many corpses will be floating in the sea. (Quote by - Thaksin Shinawatra)
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. (Quote by - Edward Carpenter)
Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea. (Quote by - Jim Gerlach)
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. (Quote by - Robert T. Bakker)
The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea. (Quote by - John Dyer)
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. (Quote by - Tavis Smiley)
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit. (Quote by - John Joly)
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. (Quote by - John Millington Synge)
Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand. (Quote by - Dana Rohrabacher)
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. (Quote by - Evan Hunter)
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)
To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. (Quote by - Gertrude Ederle)
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. (Quote by - Robert Fitzgerald)
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. (Quote by - Anna Neagle)
There's never an end for the sea. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. (Quote by - George Vancouver)
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form. (Quote by - George Grey)
I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night. (Quote by - Amanda Holden)
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. (Quote by - Granville Stanley Hall)
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. (Quote by - Edgar Lee Masters)
The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like. (Quote by - Pete du Pont)
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. (Quote by - John Cotton)
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. (Quote by - Aristotle Onassis)
Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. (Quote by - George Cooper)
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. (Quote by - David R. Brower)
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. (Quote by - Sarah Vowell)
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. (Quote by - Daniel Yergin)
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. (Quote by - John Templeton)
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. (Quote by - L. Neil Smith)
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side. (Quote by - Beck)
While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea. (Quote by - Allan Cunningham)
My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. (Quote by - Ron Reagan)
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. (Quote by - Brigham Young)
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. (Quote by - William Falconer)
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. (Quote by - Muhammad Iqbal)
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
The sea is the universal sewer. (Quote by - Jacques Yves Cousteau)
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. (Quote by - Barry Cornwall)
Praise the sea, on shore remain. (Quote by - John Florio)
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. (Quote by - Harri Holkeri)
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally. (Quote by - Ian Allison)
One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same. (Quote by - Amos Oz)
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. (Quote by - John Masefield)
Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy. (Quote by - Carlos Mesa)
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people. (Quote by - John T. Flynn)
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins. (Quote by - Kathleen Quinlan)
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner. (Quote by - Jonas Salk)
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. (Quote by - Richard Serra)
I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. (Quote by - Don Johnson)
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. (Quote by - Robert Henri)
The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released. (Quote by - Beck)
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane , stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died. (Quote by - Junipero Serra)
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along. (Quote by - E. B. White)
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. (Quote by - Harry Johnston)
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. (Quote by - George Burns)
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed. (Quote by - T. E. Lawrence)
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. (Quote by - Natalie Wood)
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. (Quote by - Roger Mudd)
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic. (Quote by - Pamela Stephenson)
I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats. (Quote by - Antony Hewish)
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. (Quote by - Stephen Gardiner)
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. (Quote by - Robert Browning Hamilton)
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. (Quote by - Douglas Jerrold)
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. (Quote by - Desmond Tutu)
I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. (Quote by - Peter Benchley)
I deep sea fish a lot. (Quote by - John Entwistle)
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! (Quote by - John Keats)
The sea hath no king but God alone. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. (Quote by - Amos Oz)
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes. (Quote by - Nils-Axel Morner)
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. (Quote by - Earl Warren)
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. (Quote by - Josef Skvorecky)
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea. (Quote by - Navjot Singh Sidhu)
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger. (Quote by - Henry Hudson)
The bottom of the sea is cruel. (Quote by - Hart Crane)
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. (Quote by - Eric Cantona)
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. (Quote by - Lloyd Bridges)
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The great fishpond the sea. (Quote by - Thomas Dekker)
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? (Quote by - Ralph Marston)
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there. (Quote by - Harold MacMillan)
There are no signposts in the sea. (Quote by - Vita Sackville-West)
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. (Quote by - Richard Farnsworth)
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. (Quote by - Ovid)
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. (Quote by - William Osler)
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. (Quote by - Thomas Traherne)
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. (Quote by - Lord Mountbatten)
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it. (Quote by - Dustin Diamond)
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (Quote by - Daniel Dennett)
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together. (Quote by - Simone Schwarz-Bart)
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. (Quote by - Edward Young)
I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more. (Quote by - Ralph Steadman)
Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects. (Quote by - George Martin)
