Sea Quotes

3453 Sea quotes by 1910 unique authors

How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly… — Robert Ballard
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger
There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look… — Cecelia Ahern
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

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