Sea Quotes · Page 39

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

— Yip Harburg

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

— G. Stanley Hall

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

— Ernest Hemingway

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

— Corrie Ten Boom

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

— Lexa Doig

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

— Anonymous

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and…

— Greg Davies

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not…

— Edward E. Barnard

Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is…

— Taliesin

There honestly is nothing like fresh cockles from Swansea market. They just taste of the sea. Add some vinegar, salt and pepper…

— Joanna Page

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves…

— Henry David Thoreau

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of…

— Johann Lamont

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek…

— Lucan

Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went…

— Kameron Hurley

Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast…

— Alice Morse Earle

A little Jewish Grandma is at the Florida coast with her little Jewish Grandson. The grandson is playing on the beach when…

— Henny Youngman

It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're…

— Steven Moffat

Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal…

— Suzy Kassem

“A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path…

— Jennifer McKeithen

“And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove around…

— Roberto Bolaño

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I…

— Jimi Hendrix

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?…

— Khalil Gibran

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take,…

— Sylvia Earle

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

— Edward Young

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

— James Russell Lowell

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

— Phil Ochs

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

— Arnold Gingrich

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

— Theodore Gordon

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

— Norton Juster

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

— Homer

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere.

— Ken Wilber

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs…

— Bob Dylan

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

— Anonymous

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

— Stu Jackson

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

— Paul Nicklen

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...

— Anne Sexton

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

— Dean Young

Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the…

— Watkin Tudor Jones