Sea Quotes
3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors
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With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.
— Laurence Binyon
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I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to…
— Cecilia Bartoli
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
— Josef Skvorecky
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And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear; For love, all love of other sights controls, And…
— John Donne
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the…
— John Ruskin
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Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you…
— William Howard Taft
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I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
— Robert Bly
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Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
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History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.…
— Paulo Coelho
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The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.
— Unknown Author
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God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.
— Yip Harburg
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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high…
— Fritz Sauckel
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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is…
— Unknown Author
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek…
— Joshua Slocum
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The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
— Lawrence Hargrave
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She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying,…
— Philip Pullman
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If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
— Samuel Johnson
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Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried…
— Unknown Author
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There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark…
— Unknown Author
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....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.
— Stevie Nicks
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Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.
— Richard Hakluyt
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.
— John Millington Synge
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
— John Ray
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