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Sea Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
- There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
- A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United…
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
- There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of…
- The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
- Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is…
- One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is…
- Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.
- The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,…
- All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to…
More Sea Quotes
- On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a… — John James Audubon
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. — Robert Ballard
- If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans… — Robert Ballard
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer,… — Henry Adams
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather… — Drew Barrymore