Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who… — Alfred Nobel
Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find… — Joseph C. Lincoln
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--… — Paul Revere
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded… — Robert Adams
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy… — Kurt Vonnegut
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re… — Randall Munroe
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… — John Milton
We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no… — Chinua Achebe
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems… — Jacques Maritain
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would be erased, like… — Michel Foucault
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea. — Rafael Nadal
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover… — John Berryman
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of… — Piet Mondrian
The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers,… — Petrarch
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and… — Stephen Crane
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice… — Stephen Crane
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. — Russell Conwell

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