Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away… — Johann Gottfried Herder
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose… — Khalil Gibran
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath… — Alfred the Great
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. — Arthur Symons
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead — Charles Dickens
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory… — Ferdinand Magellan
emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea... — Anne Sexton
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar,… — William Shakespeare
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the… — Loren Eiseley
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by… — Charles Lyell
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith
Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to… — George W. Bush
There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced.… — Aristotle
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally… — Sri Chinmoy
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. — Unknown Author
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the… — Leonardo da Vinci
We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we… — Barack Obama
My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in a submarine, navigating… — Mike Birbiglia
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast… — Saint Augustine
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was… — Douglas Bader

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