Sea Quotes · Page 51

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

— Herman Melville

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

— Livy

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

— Robert Ballard

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

— Herman Melville

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

— Carl Sandburg

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

— Yoko Ono

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

What I noticed about living by the sea when I moved to London was that it's really bad when you only have…

— KT Tunstall

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other…

— Sylvia Earle

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done…

— C. S. Lewis

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles…

— Epictetus

For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton…

— Arthur Ransome

Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses…

— William Wordsworth

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13…

— Jo Brand

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

— Philip Larkin

The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing…

— Nahum Goldmann

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is…

— Walt Whitman

Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in…

— Richard Hough

“V. Night Song At Amafi I asked the heaven of stars What I should give my love– It answered me with silence,…

— Sara Teasdale

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come…

— Margaret Atwood

Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will…

— Ehud Olmert

“Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I…

— Scott Lynch

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

— Fernando Pessoa

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

— David Anthony Durham

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at…

— Horatio Nelson

There's nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.

— James Righton

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

— Machado de Assis

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

— Sylvia Earle

“Never mind the stillness - the deep sleeps to awake. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 6.”

— Nâzım Hikmet

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

— Antony Hewish

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke…

— Janet Fitch

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

— Ludwig Borne

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

— Patricia A. McKillip

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

— G. E. M. Skues

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

— Washington Irving