Sea Quotes
3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors
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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
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When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
— Graeme Le Saux
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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness…
— Saint Augustine
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
— John Burroughs
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Over the wine-dark sea.
— Homer
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches…
— Lucy Irvine
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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
— Khalil Gibran
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
— George Will
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The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also…
— Al Gore
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of…
— Lester R. Brown
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember…
— James A. Garfield
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There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct…
— Oliver Lodge
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The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The…
— John Beddington
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past…
— Stephen Colbert
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No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way…
— Walter Lippmann
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever…
— William Shakespeare
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Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely…
— Charles Lamb
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Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever…
— St. Catherine of Siena
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So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity…
— Emmylou Harris
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall…
— William Jacob Holland
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How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
— J. G. Holland
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