Sea Quotes · Page 26

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

— Billy Joel

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

— Leonard Cohen

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

— Andrew Marvell

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

— Elton John

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

— Thomas McGuane

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

— William Cowper

I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

— Margaret E. Barber

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

— Charles Lamb

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in…

— Henry David Thoreau

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea…

— Frank Yerby

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

— Sylvia Earle

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea…

— William Shakespeare

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the…

— Francis Parkman

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before…

— Golda Meir

...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if…

— John Keats

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like…

— Seth Berkley

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling…

— Genie Francis

I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the…

— Kelly Easton

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to…

— Anonymous

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and…

— Rachel Miner

“She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall…

— Avijeet Das

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have…

— Rich Mullins

“You sea! I resign myself to you also- I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I…

— Walt Whitman

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

— William Wordsworth

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

— Su-chin Pak

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

— Paulo Coelho

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

— J. P. Donleavy

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

— Joseph Conrad

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

— Margaret Atwood

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

— Miyamoto Musashi

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

— George Will

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

— Francis Bacon

“In a sea of strangers, you've longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.”

— Lang Leav

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

— Carl Sagan

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

— Shane Smith

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

— Paul Watson

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

— Henry Hudson

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

— Pericles