Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this… — Thomas Carlyle
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas… — Edward E. Barnard
The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and… — Mahatma Gandhi
If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian… — Mikhail Saakashvili
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. — Khalil Gibran
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound… — Elwyn Brooks White
Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities… — Henry David Thoreau
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese… — Winston Churchill
To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists. — George Bernard Shaw
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Life is as inexorable as the sea. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its… — James Russell Lowell
The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea,… — James Russell Lowell
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain… — Vinod Khosla
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… — Charles Dickens
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize… — Erwin W. Lutzer
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous… — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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