Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the… — Jean Batten
The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have… — Frederick Forsyth
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. — Richard Francis Burton
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we… — Arthur David Beaty
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the… — Christian Morgenstern
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come… — Ray Davies
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in… — William Hazlitt
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of… — Louis Agassiz
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal… — Gerard De Nerval
I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're on… — Robert Earl Keen
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at… — Paul Zollo
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife… — Leonard Cohen
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. — Enoch Powell
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable… — Helen Keller
My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. — Henny Youngman
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood… — David Lloyd George
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and… — Albert Einstein
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are.… — Charles Eisenstein
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
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much… — Alice McDermott

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