Sea Quotes
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The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.
Sadao Araki
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The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.
A. E. Housman
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There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
Emily Dickinson
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The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.
Daniel Yergin
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I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
Don Johnson
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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.
Joan D. Vinge
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Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea for nothing but to make him sick.
John Donne
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill
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On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.
George Grey
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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
George Grey
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
Ray Davies The Kinks
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
Tamara Feldman
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
Ian Allison
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
J. G. Ballard
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
Kahlil Gibran
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies
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How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable - not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity - the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.
John Ruskin