Sea Quotes · Page 42

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'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

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't…

— Maggie Stiefvater

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

— Albert Camus

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and…

— Cormac McCarthy

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000…

— Jean Giono

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates…

— Emma Lazarus

You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you…

— Francesca Lia Block

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest…

— Cormac McCarthy

Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be…

— Anne Rice

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is…

— Ambrose Bierce

When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait,…

— John Gay

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play…

— Cecelia Ahern

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it,…

— Samuel Johnson

A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged…

— Elisha Gray

In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried…

— Mark Nepo

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

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

— Emily Dickinson

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

— Inez Haynes Irwin

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

— Prince Andrew

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

— Meg Rosoff

In a sea of millions of people, you really have to set yourself apart to make a statement.

— Bobby Berk

All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

— Christina Rossetti

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

— Rose George

...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

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

— Gunplay

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”

— Ben Bryant

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

— David Louis Edelman

“Today I have come for a duel. Let's see which is greater - your depth or the depth of my sorrows.”

— Akshay Shirsat