Great Sea Quotes

28 quotes by 20 authors

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make… — Tecumseh
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great… — Tecumseh
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times… — Edwin Percy Whipple
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. — Bryan Procter
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision… — Grace Lee Boggs
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover… — John Berryman
The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out… — Xenophanes
India then being four-sided in plan, the side which looks to the Orient and that to the South, the Great Sea compasseth; that towards the… — Unknown Author
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Unknown Author
God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. — Lucretius
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great… — Marcus Aurelius
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn — John Berryman
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place… — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Great Sea Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 28 Great Sea Quotes as follows: