Sea Quotes
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[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
Jimmy Buffett
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And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.
Tommy Cooper
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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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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
Francis Bacon
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
William Wordsworth
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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
Virginia Woolf
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
Joshua Slocum
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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She claimed that she was in the service of the workers, and yet, from her room in a house full of books and with a view of the sea, she wanted to command you, she wanted to tell you what you should do with your work, she decided for you, she had the solution ready even if you ended up in the street.
Elena Ferrante
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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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The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
Paul Revere
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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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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
Alan Villiers
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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
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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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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
