Sea Quotes · Page 49

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

— Ayrton Senna

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

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

— Lawrence Hargrave

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

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

— Daniel Lanois

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

— James Garner

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

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers,…

— Saint Augustine

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans -…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel.…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as…

— Anonymous

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each…

— Philip James Bailey

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves…

— John Luther Adams

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights…

— Henry Beston

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a…

— Jim Butcher

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer…

— Robert Macfarlane

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids…

— Rumi

My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim…

— Jamie O'Neill

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,…

— Claude Debussy

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

— Ovid

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

— Dan Rostenkowski

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

— Abraham Cowley

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

— Jules Verne

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

— Robert Hughes

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

— Ryan Hall

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

— J. Lynn

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

— Tommy Cooper

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

— William Ellery Channing

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Sanober Khan