Sea Quotes

• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • House
  • Night
  • Black

• '20 million other white rappers emerge, but no matter how many fish in the sea, it'll be so empty without me!'

  

  Eminem
  • Sea

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Lying

• I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • Up
  • Light
  • Water

• We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Lesbians love whale watching! They fuckin love it! THEY LOVE IT MORE THAN PUSSY! It's any sea mammal really. Whales, manatees, dolphins. They go crazy for the dolphins. I don't know what it is- I think it's the blowhole.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Crazy
  • Sea

• Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.

  

  John Burnside
  • Together
  • Sea
  • Wind

• For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Men
  • Party
  • Sea

• If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Way
  • Might
  • Vessel

• I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Living
  • Own
  • Lived

• With 'Black Sea,' I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • People
  • Long
  • Black

• I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Book

• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  

  George Eliot
  • Sea
  • Exploring
  • Voyage

• Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,And the sea to adventure upon.But the sun and the sandNo contractor can copy;We lie in the landOf the lotus and poppy;We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Earth
  • Strong
  • Sun

• You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.

  

  Carla Nazih al-Berkashi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Night

• Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Sister
  • River

• There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea.

  

  David Hewson
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Beach

• Arenas, to me, and especially sheds, are really great venues. You get that sea of humanity, but everybody can still see it and hear it. And that's really important to us.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Great
  • Important
  • Humanity

• In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

  

  James Theodore Bent
  • Sea

• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Fishing

• Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Garden
  • Ebb And Flow

• There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Good
  • Why
  • Culture

• I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

  

  Dean Ween
  • School
  • Road
  • Fishing

• Before you, love, I was lost, drifting at sea. You were the beacon I followed home. You were the one who rescued me.

  

  Alesso
  • Love
  • Home
  • Rescued

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