Sea Quotes
3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors
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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one…
— Christiaan Huygens
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With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land…
— Jules Verne
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any…
— Huey Newton
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They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near…
— Tom Clancy
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Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
— Bell Hooks
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Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;…
— James Weldon Johnson
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It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
— Tillie Olsen
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He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the part of me…
— Gene Hill
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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
— Winston Churchill
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Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
— Aneurin Bevan
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About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop…
— Gioconda Belli
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The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep.
— Sandra Boynton
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I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown.
— Bray Wyatt
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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure…
— John Ruskin
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Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.…
— Tove Jansson
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Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.
— George W. Bush
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its…
— Corey Ford
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A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
— Thomas Browne
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change…
— Amy Goodman
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Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows…
— Yasmin
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What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could…
— Osamu Dazai
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a…
— Michael Muhammad Knight
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