Sea Quotes
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
Francis Bacon
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Of all the joys of life which may fairly come under the head of recreation there is nothing more great, more refreshing, more beneficial in the widest sense of the word, than a real love of the beauty of the world... to those who have some feeling that the natural world has beauty in it I would say, Cultivate this feeling and encourage it in every way you can. Consider the seasons, the joy of the spring, the splendour of the summer, the sunset colours of the autumn, the delicate and graceful bareness of winter trees, the beauty of snow, the beauty of light upon water, what the old Greek called the unnumbered smiling of the sea.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.
Paul Watson
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She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
Sara Shepard
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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
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The floorboards point in parallel lines to a vanishing point that does not concern us - somewhere beyond the opera house, across the streets, across the houses of the suburbs, all the way to a hypothetical single dot... on the sea's horizon. Far from this sour drama.
Peter Greenaway
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There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.
Megan Smith
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He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.
Blaise Pascal
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing
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We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.
Catherine Crook de Camp
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Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.
Jimmy Buffett
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I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!
Charles Dickens
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
George Eliot
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
Rachel Carson
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
J. G. Holland
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Yann Martel
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There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.
Prince Andrew
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There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.
Clive Cussler
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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
George Bernard Shaw
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If those arrangements the fundamental arrangements of knowledge were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.
Michel Foucault
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Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!
Bob Marley
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
Walt Whitman
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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
John Milton