Seas Quotes
361 Seas quotes by 282 unique authors
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No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.
— Heinrich Heine
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For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation…
— Unknown Author
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Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.
— Don Williams
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The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.
— Barkhad Abdi
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For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish,…
— Dan Barber
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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them…
— Jose Rizal
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war…
— Wayne Muller
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For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality,…
— Henry Beston
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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
— Franz Kafka
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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling,…
— Edward Abbey
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The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.
— Walter Moers
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It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of…
— Thoraya Obaid
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I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man…
— John Fowles
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Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
— Unknown Author
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science…
— William Bligh
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By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix…
— James Lovelock
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Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.
— Rhonda Byrne
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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
— William Butler Yeats
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
— Bill Hybels
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Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land,…
— Karel Capek
Who Wrote These Seas Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 361 Seas Quotes, led by these top contributors: