Sea Quotes · Page 27

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

— Khalil Gibran

The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.

— Sara Teasdale

“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a…

— Isaac of Nineveh

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.

— Will Cuppy

The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

— Mary Howitt

Just because anyone can pilot a ship in the sea doesnt always mean that they also know how to swim in it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man…

— The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will…

— Lisa Kleypas

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth…

— Lewis Carroll

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few…

— Saschka Unseld

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning…

— Gretel Ehrlich

You can go to the moon or walk under the sea, or anything else you like, but painting remains painting because it…

— Pablo Picasso

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

— Gregory Benford

I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a…

— Roger Ebert

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute…

— Eudora Welty

A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it…

— Charles Dickens

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the…

— William Butler Yeats

Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean…

— Lord Kelvin

Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a…

— Mark Hopkins

…This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that…

— Thomas Carlyle

I am just a little fish in the sea. But I do understand that everything that I do could have a little…

— Dominique Crenn

I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously…

— Marc Marquez

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.

— Brandon Webb

I love looking out in a crowded theater and seeing a sea of gay men.

— Belinda Carlisle

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

— Harold Russell

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Burton

“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough…

— Warsan Shire

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

— Juliana Berners

When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.

— Nicola Walker

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

— Charles Davis

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

— Peter Benchley

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

— Charles Mackay

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

— Mary Howitt

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

— Rolf Edberg

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

— Robert Ballard