Sea Quotes
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And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.
Tommy Cooper -
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
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I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.
Claude Monet -
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.
Nils-Axel Morner -
I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.
Dacia Maraini -
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
Alain Ducasse -
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes -
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.
Adela Florence Nicolson
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All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.
Elizabeth Blackburn -
Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
Robert Wilson Lynd -
Obama raises human rights in Vietnam, calls for 'peaceful resolution' of South China Sea disputes, CNN (24 May 2016)
Barack Obama -
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
Philip James Bailey -
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
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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.
David Lloyd George -
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
Alan Arkin -
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.
Homer -
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
Homer -
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.
Nell Scovell -
He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
Blaise Pascal
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov -
MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!
Emily Dickinson -
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
Haruki Murakami -
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing