Sea Quotes · Page 21

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

— Arthur Rimbaud

They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

— William Ross Wallace

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

— Lawrence Hargrave

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

— Abraham Cowley

Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.

— Dan Rostenkowski

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when I read it as a kid.

— J-Hope

They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.

— Horace

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

— Ovid

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are…

— Jeff Mangum

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust…

— John D. Voelker

Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they…

— Richard Wilbur

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between…

— James Elroy Flecker

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We…

— Pete du Pont

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness…

— John Ruskin

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new…

— John Gierach

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed…

— Terry Pratchett

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even…

— Clay Shirky

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also…

— Marcus Brigstocke

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect…

— Frank Sinatra

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in…

— A. A. Gill

Catching fish is not a mental game between fish and angler. A 'smart' trout is only smarter than other trout, not smarter…

— Lee Wulff

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no!…

— Anthony de Mello

We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

— James Garner

Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

— Daniel Lanois

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

— Robert Hughes

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

— Jules Verne

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.

— J. Lynn

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

— Ryan Hall

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

— William Ellery Channing

And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.

— Tommy Cooper

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

— Sylvia Plath

I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

— Gabourey Sidibe

I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

— Mark Birch

A 150 foot yacht quickly becomes very small when you are out to sea and someone goes bonkers, for whatever reason.

— Sonja Morgan

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

— David Byrne

“she's got oceans tucked away in her hair poems swim under her skin.”

— Sanober Khan

I'm from London and I had never seen the sea until I was about 15, when I went on a trip to Littlehampton.

— Paterson Joseph