Seas Quotes

361 quotes by 282 authors

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no… — Chinua Achebe
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. — Russell Conwell
From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation… — John A. Lejeune
And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic… — John Keats
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.… — Paulo Coelho
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high… — Fritz Sauckel
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good… — Samuel Johnson
History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas,… — Paulo Coelho
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. — Nicolaus Copernicus
But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause… — Woodrow Wilson
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.… — Winston Churchill
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. — Herman Melville
The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink. — Tim Powers
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing… — Fred Hoyle
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it… — Ben Bova
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world — Pierre Mac Orlan

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