Sea Quotes

• The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sea
  • Father Of Waters
  • Unvexed

• I remember looking out into the sea of phone lights as Chris Martin belted 'Yellow' on the piano and deciding that that was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Rest

• Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Sun
  • Sea
  • Eternity

• I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • World
  • Shining
  • Planets

• Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Memorable
  • Barren

• hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Hair
  • Tears
  • Kiss

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• I do not like this place Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a small fishing-village on the Spanish border. I find it arid and dried up. The sea here is ugly. It is either all blue - I hate it like that - or dark and dull.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Up
  • Small
  • Hate

• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, 'My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Sea

• The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Space
  • Sea

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Europe

• What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Nature
  • Sea

• My closet is a sea of black pants, skirts, tops, and bags, so it's great to come across a brand that makes me want to break out of my fashion rut! The Sequence Collection is an accessories line that is all about color, from funky woven bracelets to brightly-patterned bags.

  

  Amanda Hearst
  • Great
  • Black
  • Fashion

• Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Worlds
  • Restless

• Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Sea
  • Beach

• I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Moving
  • Sea

• You move me, you move me.with your buildings and your eyesAutumn woods and Winter skies.You move me, you move me.Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.You call me, you call me. - The Analog Kid (1982)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • City
  • Sea
  • Winter

• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Sea
  • Temptation
  • Swim

• Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Future

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Seductive

• At night the sea is very loud,And voices ride the tide.At another time, in another place,Beneath the silent moon,We laughed together.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Night

• The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

  

  Kevin James
  • Heart
  • Moon
  • Empty

• Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

  

  Billy Rose
  • Believe
  • Moon
  • Sailing

1

...

12

13

14

15

16

...

53

previous

next