Sea Quotes
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The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone,Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.
Frederick William Faber
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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
Paul Revere
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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.
Charles Dickens
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
Thomas Aquinas
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In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?
Paul Gauguin
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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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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
William Wordsworth
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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton
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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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My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Joseph C.Lincoln
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Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Seamus Heaney
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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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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
Joshua Slocum
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert
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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
Charles Dickens
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And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.
Tommy Cooper
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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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I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.
Mirai Nagasu
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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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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery