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Sea Quotes by Anne Sexton
- emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
- The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
- And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it…
- God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my…
- Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there,…
- The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
More Sea Quotes
- On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a… — John James Audubon
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore