Sea Quotes
3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors
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Courage is the most important thing...Wake up yourselves and others. Control your mind and have firm determination... Be firm like a rock, deep and serious…
— Haidakhan Babaji
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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
— Joshua Slocum
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Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
— Joshua Slocum
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the…
— Joshua Slocum
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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the…
— Joshua Slocum
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But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?
— Joshua Slocum
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If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics…
— Lewis Thomas
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In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the…
— Forrest Gander
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The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?
— Mother Meera
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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them…
— Jose Rizal
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Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't.
— Lights
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Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are…
— Simon Van Booy
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There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a…
— Steven Callahan
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The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and…
— Steven Callahan
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He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.
— Publilius Syrus
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war…
— Wayne Muller
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great…
— Brenda Peterson
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The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit.
— Felix Riesenberg
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On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than…
— Harold Gatty
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The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
— Unknown Author
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For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality,…
— Henry Beston
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A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the…
— Noam Chomsky
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
— George Orwell
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Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
— Jimi Hendrix
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