Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. — John Keats Copy Share Image
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home… — John Addington Symonds Copy Share Image
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“She had seen the almost-human Orona, who was orphaned and alone in the world, a woman whom Cain had plucked off the… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country,… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea. — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching… — Tanya Moir Copy Share Image
The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal? — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines. — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I don't like lakes generally. It's a glorified pond, isn't it? I live by the sea, so for me I need to… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea;… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
