Seas Quotes
361 Seas quotes by 282 unique authors
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It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at…
— Edward E. Barnard
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Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
— Henry Beston
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The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
— Saul Bellow
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Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted…
— George Bird Grinnell
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When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the…
— John Haynes Holmes
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
— Edmund Waller
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
— Saint Augustine
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Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of…
— Walt Whitman
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean…
— William Wordsworth
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Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
— Amin Maalouf
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It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
— M. Russell Ballard
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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a…
— John Masefield
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River.…
— Mao Zedong
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
— Lucretius
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
— Edith Wharton
Who Wrote These Seas Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 361 Seas Quotes, led by these top contributors: