Sea Quotes · Page 41

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

— William Falconer

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

— A. P. Herbert

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

— Anonymous

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In Cyprus, our house was right on the beach. I could walk out of our front door, cross a road, and there…

— Theo Paphitis

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

— Elvis Costello

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

— Bill Maher

I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going…

— Neve McIntosh

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very…

— Nostradamus

I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea…

— Yasumasa Morimura

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions.…

— Sylvia Earle

Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to…

— Charles Lamb

I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide,…

— Sylvia Earle

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio,…

— Johnny Weir

Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room - a cry…

— Yukio Mishima

How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like…

— Anonymous

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends…

— Iris Murdoch

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,…

— Arnold Gingrich

[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow…

— David Lloyd George

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he…

— Augustus William Hare

Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that…

— George Will

Air superiority is a condition for all operations, at sea, in land, and in the air.

— Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

— Joanne Harris

This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

— Sylvia Earle

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

— Louis L'Amour

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

— Lucretius

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

— Anonymous

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

— George Eliot

When I discovered eyelash extensions, it was like the sea has parted; the sun came out. It was everything.

— Andrea Navedo

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

— Thomas Fleming Day

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

— Roderick Haig-Brown

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

— Frederick William Faber

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

— Edward Carpenter

“You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.”

— Peter Benchley

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

— William Wordsworth

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

— Hammond Innes