Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew. — Rudyard Kipling
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the… — Rudyard Kipling
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. — Rudyard Kipling
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern… — Herman Melville
He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne
We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but… — Dan Millman
These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be… — Earl Nightingale
Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails! — Thomas Russell
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.… — Nils-Axel Morner
We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with… — St. Catherine of Siena
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his,… — Sarah Rees Brennan
During a heavy storm at sea a nervous woman passenger on a large liner went to the captain, seeking reassurance. "Captain," she asked tremulously, "are… — James Keller
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor… — Jose Ramos-Horta
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain… — Edward Forbes
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness,… — William Shakespeare
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the… — Joseph C. Lincoln
The sea is certainly common to all. — Plautus
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. — Publilius Syrus
... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle. — Ben Jonson
The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. — Heinrich Heine
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside… — Homer
We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. — Unknown Author
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the… — Quentin Crisp

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