Sea Quotes

• 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
  • Pain
  • Risk
  • Beach

• Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

  

  Bob Marley
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Righteousness

• Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Deep
  • Safety
  • Compare

• The sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Kiss

• But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sea
  • Deeper

• The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Friends
  • Angry
  • Soup

• If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sea

• Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

  

  Alan Villiers
  • Sea
  • Passengers

• The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Water
  • Spirit
  • Sea

• 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
  • House
  • Single
  • Drama

• All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by think of it looking on We As only a sort of They!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Way
  • Sea
  • Good People

• 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
  • Sea

• 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
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Beach

• 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sea
  • Reflection
  • Sails

• This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Sea
  • Economy
  • Routes

• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life
  • Sea

• The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Learning
  • Vain
  • Hills

• Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Sea
  • Houses
  • Unrest

• I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Sea

• I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Home
  • Sun
  • Sea

• Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves...

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Rock
  • Waves
  • Life firm

• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  

  Thomas R. Marshall
  • Brother
  • President
  • States

• After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Expedition
  • Journeying
  • South Pole

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