Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere. — Ken Wilber
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
Praise the sea; on shore remain. — John Florio
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. — H. M. Tomlinson
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The… — Wallace Stevens
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within… — George Eliot
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and… — Henry David Thoreau
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. — Lord Byron
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs… — W. Somerset Maugham
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. — Mark Twain
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,… — Tertullian
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.… — Winston Churchill
All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere? — Hirohito
I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together… — Khalil Gibran
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. — Charles Spurgeon
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more… — Charles Spurgeon
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. — William Wordsworth
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. — William Shakespeare
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. — Douglas William Jerrold
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air,… — Amy Carmichael
God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. — Ralph Hodgson

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