Sea Quotes · Page 54

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

— Jessica Simpson

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day…

— John Millington Synge

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

— Alan Coren

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

— William Shakespeare

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

— Stevie Nicks

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea.

— Laozi

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

— Katharine Lee Bates

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

— Nicolas Cage

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet…

— Donald Trump

I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of…

— Ameen Rihani

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing…

— J. G. Holland

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood…

— John Steinbeck

The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will…

— Nostradamus

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea…

— William Shakespeare

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing…

— Paul Schullery

“His smell reminded me of Marzia’s, and how she too always seemed to exude that brine of the seashore on those days…

— André Aciman

As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath,…

— William Trevor

The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are…

— Paul Watson

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to…

— John Armstrong

The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse…

— Doug Ferguson

The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can…

— Mary Oliver

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the…

— Charles Dickens

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

— Auguste Rodin

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

— William Butler Yeats

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

— Heinrich Zimmer

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

— Tim Powers

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

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

— Rick Riordan

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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