Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure — Alison Bechdel
How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap… — Michelle Magorian
What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power… — Terrence Malick
Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of… — Clarice Lispector
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They… — Mahatma Gandhi
Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles.… — Larry Niven
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do… — Richard Sibbes
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I… — Amos Oz
The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by,… — Paul Watson
From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation… — John A. Lejeune
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. — Fernando Pessoa
Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses and tattered banners.… — Knut Hamsun
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt. — Winston Churchill
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with… — Laozi
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on… — Marsilio Ficino
Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming… — Dennis E Adonis
Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear — William C. Bryant
Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions. — Oskar Kokoschka
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom
Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not;… — Dylan Thomas
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people,… — Laozi
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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