Sea Quotes · Page 47

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

— Saib Tabrizi

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing

— Richard Gerber

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

— Joseph Conrad

If people plunder you on the sea, that's piracy. If people plunder you on land, that's the Obama administration.

— Frank J. Oteri

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

— Siri Hustvedt

I ran away to sea. I know that only happens in fiction. But it's what I did.

— Sterling Hayden

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

“If you don't love the stormy sea, you don't love one of its most important qualities! When you don't love a character…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may…

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and…

— Paul Goodman

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing…

— E.F. Benson

Today she met me at the door, said I would have to choose, if I picked up that fishing rod today, she'd…

— Brad Paisley

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump…

— Walt Whitman

Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams.…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a…

— George Washington

“The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that…

— Rebecca Solnit

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She…

— Leonard Cohen

The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to…

— Henry Van Dyke

[We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and…

— Donald Trump

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a…

— Sylvia Earle

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far…

— Randall Munroe

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything…

— Henry Miller

I love you, I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and…

— William Goldman

I flew an H3 Sea King. The most famous Sea King is Marine One.

— Mikie Sherrill

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea...

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.

— Brian Jacques

We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

— Laozi

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

— Avigdor Lieberman

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

— Meghan O'Rourke

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

— Jim Harrison

“The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths.”

— Elizabeth George

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

— Menander

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

— Alexander Pope

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

— GRiZ

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

— Walter Raleigh

The key to all strange things is in thy heart…/ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

— Countee Cullen

When all our tears have reached the sea, part of you will live in me.

— Tim McGraw