Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

What the Way is to the world, the stream is to the river and the sea. — Laozi
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. — Laozi
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. — Laozi
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions. — Saul Bellow
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their… — Anna Neagle
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run… — Robert Macfarlane
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted… — George Bird Grinnell
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls. — Christopher Smart
The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must… — George Downame
To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. — Paul Eldridge
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. — Brian Ferneyhough
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the… — Harri Holkeri
This is what I like about life at sea. It’s one long voyage of discovery. Solid water! What will they think of next? Hopefully a… — Gideon Defoe
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art — Alan Villiers
At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to… — John T. Flynn
Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop. — KatÃ³ Lomb
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! — Edmund Waller
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. — William Halsey
It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its… — Rebecca Solnit
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating… — Robert Green Ingersoll
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. — Unknown Author

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