Sea Quotes · Page 23

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

— Tom Sutcliffe

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

— Enoch Powell

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

— Elsa Barker

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

— Democritus

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

— Euripides

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

— John Climacus

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

— Anonymous

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

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

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many…

— Robert T. Bakker

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars…

— Ernst Gottlieb Baron

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of…

— Anonymous

It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that…

— Claude Monet

Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up…

— John Ashbery

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and…

— Mordechai Vanunu

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

— Plato

Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can…

— Jo Beverley

“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and…

— Cormac McCarthy

What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth…

— Edmund Spenser

I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and…

— Charles Dickens

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand…

— Frederick Buechner

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His…

— Michael Drayton

I've been looking for answers all of my life. Yes I realize now these are not what I needed. No, in fact,…

— Stefanie Schneider

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.

— Phyllis Diller

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

— Paul Banks

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

— Joseph Conrad

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

— Winston Churchill

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

— Freeman Dyson

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

— Jack Ma

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

— Peter Singer

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

— Angelina Jolie

“i miss my brother like the sea would miss salt if that were taken away.”

— Emma Cameron

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

— Celia Thaxter

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

— Haruki Murakami

Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God…

— Pablo Casals

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

— Mitt Romney