Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult. — Thomas Aquinas
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although… — Ambrose
All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea. — Venerable Bede
To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when… — Gertrude Ederle
The sea lives in every one of us. — Robert Wyland
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans… — Unknown Author
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely… — Unknown Author
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What… — Buzz Aldrin
Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements… — Mikhail Lomonosov
God willing, we will throw them into the sea. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
He who commands the sea has command of everything. — Themistocles
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea. — Dwight L. Moody
Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the… — Lloyd John Ogilvie
If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from… — Unknown Author
A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of… — Saint Augustine
These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain… — William Shakespeare
Talk not of the river or lake To those who have looked on the sea. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea. — John Templeton
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know… — Richard Hovey
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am… — Trent Reznor
Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine… — William Shakespeare

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