Sea Quotes · Page 20

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

— James Theodore Bent

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

— David Wroblewski

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ...

— Jack Spicer

I am a genderless sea creature who has been writing and studying music since I was 12.

— Justin Tranter

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

— Robert Wyland

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

— Cristina Garcia

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

— David Crosby

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for…

— Elizabeth Inchbald

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water.…

— Bill Barich

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists…

— Ed Zern

Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging…

— John Milton

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society…

— Edward Abbey

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all…

— Christopher Paolini

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea.…

— Emily Dickinson

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and…

— Agatha Christie

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook…

— William Shakespeare

I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator…

— Nell Scovell

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with…

— Anonymous

For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she…

— Margaret Atwood

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.…

— Margaret Fuller

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen…

— Peter James

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who…

— C. V. Wedgwood

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

— John Cooper Clarke

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

— Anonymous

Don't build a house next to the sea if you don't want to get flooded.

— Vikrant Parsai

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

— Antonio Machado

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

— Virginia Woolf

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are…

— Sylvia Earle

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

— John Updike

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

— Elizabeth Hay

Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come…

— T. S. Eliot

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

— Ayrton Senna

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

— Tony Bishop

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

— Barkhad Abdi

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt