Sea Quotes · Page 29

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

— Hermann Broch

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

— Nat Faxon

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~…

— Langston Hughes

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

— Thom Yorke

Im not the worlds greatest sea food chef, I just like fresh fish.

— Rick Stein

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

— Bayard Taylor

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get…

— Roger McGuinn

The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence…

— Alessandro Baricco

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as…

— James Weldon Johnson

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And…

— Khalil Gibran

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please,…

— Joel Edgerton

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach…

— Plato

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!…

— Sophocles

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from…

— Tim Finn

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden…

— Herman Melville

The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at.…

— Jean Dubuffet

To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which…

— Lord Dunsany

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

We came from the sea originally, now we're going back in it. Don't go in it, unless you're in a boat.

— Karl Pilkington

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

— William Wordsworth

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

— Mark Twain

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

— Franz Kafka

I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.

— Nick Kroll

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

— Rudyard Kipling

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

— Helen Hunt Jackson

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

— Izaak Walton

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

— Lawrence Tierney

Sea freight is by far the cheapest, most economical way to move goods.

— Soren Skou

Walk into any Japanese fish market, and you'll see neat rows of sea urchin roe sold in little wooden trays.

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...”

— Muse

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

— Menander

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

— Robert Herrick

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and occasionally the chance to feel strong.

— Primo Levi