Sea Quotes · Page 27

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

— Arthur Ransome

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

— Criss Jami

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

— Smokey Robinson

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

— Pierre Mac Orlan

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

— Horatio Nelson

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

— Jules Verne

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the…

— Heraclitus

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray…

— Albert Camus

What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many…

— Dwight L. Moody

I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes…

— Adela Florence Nicolson

A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without…

— Emily Dickinson

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with…

— Horace

This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great…

— Anonymous

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us…

— Evo Morales

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a…

— John Millington Synge

To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and…

— Dante Alighieri

“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip…

— David Foster Wallace

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand…

— Derek Jarman

I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and…

— Thomas McGuane

“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire…

— Nicholas Monsarrat

Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he…

— Anonymous

The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not…

— James G. Frazer

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon…

— Charles Dickens

“The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.”

— Anonymous

I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

— Lord Byron

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

— Kim Edwards

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

— Ras Kass

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

— Henry James

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

— Harold MacMillan

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

— Arthur Schopenhauer

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

— Robert Treat Paine

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

— Bob Seger

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

— Amin Maalouf

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

— Vera Nazarian

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

— Bob Dylan

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends…

— Edward Lear

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

— Louis L'Amour

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

— Percy Bysshe Shelley