Sea Quotes · Page 22

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

— James Theodore Bent

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

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

— Elizabeth Hay

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.

— Tony Bishop

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly…

— Tim Winton

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the…

— Ivan Turgenev

I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather…

— Henry Rollins

Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over…

— Brian Skerry

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great…

— John Green

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among…

— Virginia Woolf

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and…

— Douglas Coupland

The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…

— Hugh Miller

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…

— Anonymous

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given,…

— Ray Bradbury

It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.

— Arthur Rimbaud

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

— Barkhad Abdi

Don't build a house next to the sea if you don't want to get flooded.

— Vikrant Parsai

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

— Antonio Machado

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

— Virginia Woolf

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are…

— Sylvia Earle

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

— John Updike

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

— Ovid

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

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

— James Garner

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

— Daniel Lanois

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

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

— Lawrence Hargrave