Sea Quotes

Earth's sweat, the sea.

— Empedocles

The great fish eat the small.

— Alexander Barclay

The sea is my business.

— Michael Mullen

I love the sea.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Debt is a bottomless sea.

— Anonymous

Feed a fish a cat a day

— Tony Bishop

I am not a man of the sea.

— Boyan Slat

The sea hates a coward.

— Eugene O'Neill

Doing good to the devil is like planting a seed in the sea.

— Vikrant Parsai

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

— Hart Crane

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

— Wilbur Smith

“Who can count the sand by the sea?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

— Themistocles

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

— Pope Benedict XVI

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world”

— Chika Onyenezi

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

— Lee Wulff

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

— T. S. Eliot

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

— Jeanne Moreau

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

— Anonymous

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

— Diane Wilson

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

— William Kittredge

The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep.

— Sandra Boynton

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

— Charles Wesley

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless,…

— Anonymous

When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me…

— Charles Lamb

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the…

— Tecumseh

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan,…

— Anna Neagle

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

— Herman Melville

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights…

— Anonymous

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

— George Alex Stevens

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin…

— William Shakespeare

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something…

— Sylvester Stallone

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a…

— Gregory of Nyssa

[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…

— Loren Eiseley

No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of…

— Myrtle Reed

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the…

— Humphrey Bogart

At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South…

— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their…

— David Mitchell