Sea Quotes · Page 23

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

— Alan Coren

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

— Jessica Simpson

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

— Stephen Gardiner

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

— Quentin Blake

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

— Mark Twain

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

— Laurence Binyon

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

— Joseph Conrad

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

— Neil Gaiman

What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of…

— Pliny the Elder

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Blackpool is a hilarious place. It's kind of like the Las Vegas of the U.K. It's by the sea and there's a…

— Olly Alexander

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth…

— John Muir

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town…

— L. Welch Pogue

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these…

— Ernest Hollings

Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl,…

— Wayne Muller

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father…

— Henrik Ibsen

As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country,…

— Vladimir Putin

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the…

— Daphne du Maurier

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in,…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants…

— William Shakespeare

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke…

— Roger Bacon

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not…

— Helen Keller

The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.

— Dave Barry

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going…

— Johnny Cash

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to…

— John D. Voelker

“Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea”

— William Wordsworth

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

— Jimmy Iovine

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

— Tim Powers

“Tidal waves surge forward, And in their wake, Stale water is replenished. (Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)”

— Wendy Shreve

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

— William Booth

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

— John Keats

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

— Cassandra Clare

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

— Carl Schurz

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like…

— Richard Farnsworth

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

— John McPhee

I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.

— Rick Riordan